A privileged young woman from New England falls in love with a practical Midwesterner, but can their love withstand the grief of losing a child?

A married man in New York City must try to get a female friend to reciprocate the love he has for her while helping her through her ongoing separation with her husband.

A lonely maiden is constantly reminded of her single status, working as an advertiser for a baby bed in New York. Seeking to make something of herself, she takes on both work and love with a passion, but only succeeds in one.

As a strictly sexual affair stretches past its expiration date, a woman and her taken lover struggle to define their burgeoning feelings for each other.

A Native American woman reminisces on the story her great-grandfather would tell about running away with her great-grandmother. The woman draws parallels between the story and her own first love.

A woman with minimal relationship experience deals with the aftermath of her choice between her first love and her sick father.

A young woman recounts three times in her life when she felt emotions of an unexplainable transcendent love: watching a ballet for the first time, making eye contact with an attractive librarian in high school, and listening to an old professor lecture during night classes at a university.

A mother sorrowfully recounts her daughter’s first love and its destructive effects.

A woman falls in love with a fisherman she hates, but he hates and loves her as well. Endeavoring into a marriage that baffles all, the couple tries to make their toxic love work.

A young woman's boyfriend must continually see an older woman because she pays him and he needs the money. However, the girlfriend is suspicious of the arrangement and fears that he will leave her for the older woman.