On the campus of Pembleton College, a fierce debate arises. Should the student body mandate calliagnosia, a neurological imposition that prevents one from seeing and evaluating the beauty of others? Hear what students, professors, lobbyists, and others have to say regarding the matter right before the consequential vote.

Anxious ahead of an important lecture, a psychology professor blows up after finding a photo of his wife's ex-husband.

Faced with the consequences of his actions, a scientist decides to live in fantasy rather than confront the pain he's caused.

Following a messy breakup, an MIT graduate and a PhD student at Indiana University separately talk about the problems in their former relationship in two spliced-together conversations, exploring conflicts surrounding language, intimacy, commitment, and intellectualism.

In Michigan, a recently divorced professor reflects on what it means to exist, first alone in his empty apartment and then alongside his student in a mission to find a missing girl.

A lonely romantic buys a sex robot who falls in love with him. He rejects her advances, which turns him into a cultural phenomenon and sends her into a spiral.

An elderly Chinese engineer reflects the time he spends working on obsolete space craft in relative isolation.

When a charismatic new econ history teacher moves in next door and gains a mass following at an Ohio university, the physical education instructor wonders if he is really worth the hype.

A professor of neurobiology describes to horrified police officers how he snapped under his famous physicist wife's controlling tendencies and murdered her.

In his new job as an English professor, Tarzan finds himself annoyed by his students, hounded by his department chair, and alienated by the world around him, with solace only from his girlfriend Jane. Naturally, hijinks ensue.