Two American friends escape their vacation in Paris to the French countryside, enjoying a day of fresh air until a Russian waiter and an Austrian remind them of the horrors of war.

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.

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

An American writer travels to Sophia where he meets a famous poetess. He falls in love with her and her attitude.

A U.S state department official encounters an infatuation on his trip to Eastern Europe that ends in despair.

A mother and her three boys are on a small Greek island, where they prepare to reunite with her husband. Before they leave, they attend a party, and spend time reflecting on the possibility that they may never see their missing loved one again.

Tired of being deceived and humiliated by people that he trusted, a Swedish-American man decides to leave civilization behind and live alone on an island forever. However, his paradise quickly turns into hell, and he is forced to realize that history always repeats itself.

A Canadian graduate student and his wife are living in France and often socialize with their peers at concerts and dinner parties. They soon make friends with an established novelist, but as the student continues to meet people he begins to question who he can trust and who his real friends are.

An American continues to run into another American on their trips around Europe and the Mediterranean.

A young Native American man visits a burial site on a nearby island and must reflect on both his allegiance to his culture and to himself.