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A couple, an older man with a young wife, traverse a typical day, dealing with their respective mental health issues atop long-standing marital tensions.

Amongst problems with her ungrateful children and ex-husband, a middle-aged mother deals with a burgeoning mid-life crisis — until she realizes that she has become miraculously pregnant.

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.

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

After her husband leaves her, a middle-aged woman reminisces about their years of marriage. Encouraged by her therapist, who thinks that her husband is going through a temporary midlife crisis, the woman waits for her husband and is convinced that he will come back.

A depressed woman drives her friends and therapist crazy, going ceaselessly on about the childhood trauma she incurred during her parents’ divorce settlings.

Two men putting on a production for their New York theater company seek out a legendary, elderly actor, but upon finding him, they meet a man as dilapidated as the theater he once worked for.

An elderly woman in a suburban town visits an old neighbor at a nursing home. What could have been a cordial, quiet day becomes tainted with the subtle melancholia of growing old and seeing the world change irreparably around oneself.

A young girl goes to stay with her uncle and aunt, where she learns that there may be more to their marriage than it initially seems.