A female mapmaker goes to look at a mapstore and she finds a beautiful map sold by a man she becomes attracted to.

Two cartographers reach a geographic boundary and discuss what they see.

A group of friends realize they have been living vicariously through one of their friend's travel stories for their entire lives.

An English topographer travels to India, separating him from his pregnant wife and daughter. Over the course of the year-long expedition, he discovers a new passion and finds he wants to stay longer.

A former geologist lies down in a hospital bed and remembers the Native woman he had fallen in love with during his travels.

An incestuous family leaves for vacation and ends up in the heart of the Olympic National Forest. Here, their traumatized daughter begins searching for the real world equivalent of the void she mentally escapes to during the sexual abuse she endures from her father.

A woman who is not content with life and fears staying in one place works as a traveling writer, recording her thoughts and interactions on tape recorders and finding different lovers in each place she visits.

In a dystopic future on Earth, as a woman comes home from vacation, she hears about a continent emerging from the sea as old ones sink, and returns to find her husband released from Rehabilitation Camp. He and his fellow researchers discover how to make a “sun tap” to channel the sun’s energy into power, but then he is again forced away by the government, into a hospital.

A creative writing teacher sits through a conference with one his favorite students. He takes us on a journey through the characters in the story, and in his life.

In modern-day China, a cohort of wasps skilled in cartography establishes a new colony, exercising their suppressive rule over a local beehive. One anarchist bee makes inroads into the wasp colony, setting in motion a subversion of the wasp monarchy and a new, pioneering generation of anarchist bees.