While trying to track down her missing daughter, a mother confronts the trauma of the violence that she faced at their separation.

A spirit, once stranded on earth, finally returns to his realm–but ponders the rightness of his choice.

A doctor ponders their time spent with a planet-sized library in the wake of its scheduled destruction.

A maid, silently and in thought alone, contemplates her own position in a house full of opulent, decadent lives.

The ex-wife of a famous male writer considers a story he wrote about a neighbor they once had.