As she walks alongside the Hudson River with her friend, a woman excitedly explains her intricate vision of what would give her happiness.

After being laid off from his job, a man struggles to find meaning in a utopian world where all of his basic needs are already met for him.

As a woman grows older, she falls into a deep sadness while the men around her constantly tell her to cheer up.

A depressed woman searches for a new apartment in her city. As she prepares to move, lethargy threatens to inundate her.

A middle-aged woman looks forward to growing old because she believes older people are less beholden to other's expectations, but her friend disagrees.

A man considers the possibility of multiple realities, and creates possible scenarios for how his life could have turned out; including one where he is a famous football player, another where he's a stay-at-home dad caring for a daughter who has Down Syndrome, and another where she doesn't.

In post-World War II Japan, a boy is raised by his frigid father without love and spends the rest of his life endlessly pursuing it.

When a young Italian girl goes on vacation for Christmas with her family, her father splurges on her in Verona, and she decides that this is what true happiness is for a child.

A composer returns to his hometown on the East coast to visit the daughter he hasn't seen in twelve years, trying to amend his absence and find the words to describe the unhappiness he feels, despite his fame and success.

A man reflects on the loneliness of his childhood home, where his family would fervently clean the house every Saturday for guests on Sunday who would never show.