A young woman from a strict household heads off to a countryside home with an older man where she falls for the freedom of being out late at night, being romanced. However, she is forced to return home the real fun begins, dreaming of what the night could have been instead.

After their son goes to bed, a husband and wife socialize with another couple on the Fourth of July. As the group smoke and dance, the wife watches her husband admire the other woman, and she worries that he will leave her.

A group of people at a bar discuss their experiences with an eccentric and impulsive boy as they anticipate his arrival.

A hungover young man marvels at a beautiful Southern plaza, reminisces his past, wonders about the future, and finds himself wondering what is happening around him.

An independent elderly woman becomes involved with a much younger man and reflects on life, love, and relationships.

A man reminisces on his youth working as a bartender in New York, 1969. He's stressed about money and the cook in the bar gets him into drugs, to which his girlfriend is opposed.

A man plays bridge on his night off with a few distant friends. Their conversation inspires a tipsy, failed attempt to steal from a drugstore. In this 20th century jail, his excitement turns to anger and doom as he reflects on his crumbling marriage, kids, and childhood.

A grown man remembers the summer of 1984 when a girl he had a crush on took him on a tour of her haunted house.

Caught up in memories of the past, a woman remembers a fateful summer dinner party at the start of World War II that left her family more divided than ever.

In the midst of World War II, two lovesick foreigners meet at a nightclub in Rio and indulge in the company of each other while still languishing after previous relationships.