After an obese older man discovers his wife is having an affair, he invites the lovers on a tense trip to the beach.

While on a cruise, a retired man and his wife, along with a group of older tourist, take a bus in the scorching heat to go on a nature walk for a day trip. When they get to their destination, the tourists get held up at gun point and robbed, but the man’s ex-Marine training kicks in and he retaliates.

A tourist from England complains about his boring trip to California but enjoys experiences around town facilitated by his zany friends.

A girl going through puberty hopelessly tries to hold onto childhood during a day at the beach, but meddling mothers push her to grow up.

A teenage girl is swept into the wealthy side of her coastal town by her new boyfriend, but soon finds that she longs for adventure and freedom outside of his superficial social scene.

Amidst her uneventful busy life, a woman decides to take a risk to against her conservative mother’s wishes. In doing so, she welcomes the exciting attention of someone new into her life.

In a series of commentaries on the human condition — life, truth, happiness, death — a spinster sister takes in her dead sister’s children; a man is entranced by the endless waves which roll and crash in the ocean; a carpenter wrestles with the burden of being everyone’s confidante; a dying railroad crossing watchman shares a simple but complex wisdom.

At a vacation home on the beach, a girl finds mysterious memorials after being told by an old man to venture out into the sand dunes. Years later, the people who live on the beach are plagued by voices telling them to kill themselves.

A mundane married couple vacations at a tropical resort, where the husband becomes increasingly curious about a strange mother and son duo.

Attempting to have fun for once, a teenage girl witnesses death at an oceanside beach party.