In a world where there is no smell, taste, pain, death, or digestion, the people are left hungering for one thing: love.

A lustful, rhapsodic husband makes an unsuccessful attempt to seduce his distant wife and is surprised when the tables soon turn.

A woman who is able to read people's minds feeds on people's ugly thoughts and craves the taste of horrible, despicable people. After meeting others who also feed on thoughts, the woman tries unsuccessfully to protect a woman she has fallen in love with from becoming a victim.

A man tries to determine the cost of a passionate but brief love affair, and his calculations lead him to a solemn but hopeful realization.

When a depressed middle aged man strikes up a romance with his neighbor in a modern suburban American town, he consults women's magazines to make himself into the perfect lover.

When a Japanese man visiting Singapore with his girlfriend gets sick from a local crab restaurant, it upends his entire relationship.

A man fantasizes about courting his friend's wife, despite being married himself, with increasing desire.

A lonely romantic buys a sex robot who falls in love with him. He rejects her advances, which turns him into a cultural phenomenon and sends her into a spiral.

In an austere farmstead on the distant planet O, two lovers must find a way to fool their fellow citizens and satisfy a complicated series of marriage rites so that their forbidden love may last forever.

Vignettes of a number of relationships, most of them troubled, are glimpsed through the descriptions of creatures in this bestiary of the imaginary.