When his landlord tells him he must move out by the end of the month, a jobless, penniless young man has to find a way to start over while he navigates corruption all around him.

A landlady says a tearful farewell to one of her Mexican tenants, who must leave due to an expired visa.

A greedy old landlord contemplates the end of his life as his tenacious tenant's demands of reparation for his wife's death drives him closer to madness. Nearing the end of his life, a stingy landlord refuses to pay for his tenant's funeral bill and becomes entranced by a pregnant squatter on his property.

A lonely old man comes to visit a married woman's apartment, which she and her husband are renting out for the summer while they travel to Europe—however, the woman becomes suspicious that the old man is not actually interested in renting at all.

A roomer lives in a house of an old couple in Long Island. He lives a meager life and witnesses strange things in his small town full of gossip and secrets.

When a young academic's wife dies suddenly on the couples' honeymoon voyage across Europe, he copes by turning to his landlord.

A mother in an apartment building hears strange sounds of pleasure coming from her downstairs neighbor and thinks about how the other women in the building are all more interesting than her.

A man in suburbia finds his neighbor nearly naked standing outside his kids' rooms. He begins to retaliate to prevent it from ever happening again.

A tenant couple cares for a handful of quails, despite the concern that their landlords next door have for their garden. When winter comes, the quails have disappeared, leaving the couple to hope they will return in the spring.

In 1950s New York City, a businessman discovers that a young and wealthy neighbor is obsessed with his wife. Confronted by the prospect of divorce, the businessman struggles to hold his family together.