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.

A man fantasizes about courting his friend's wife, despite being married himself, with increasing desire.

A man tries to determine the cost of a passionate but brief love affair, and his calculations lead him to a solemn but hopeful realization.

In the quarantine stage of the 2020 pandemic, a woman and her husband reflect on their marriage, how time has somehow conflated, making them, at once, who they are now and who they used to be.

A girl challenges the spider which has, for better or for worse, remained inseparable from her family and her ancestors for generations.

Years after facing abuse from the hermit overseeing a nature preserve, two children—now adults—enact their revenge.

When a man's brother disappears, he thinks back to their arduous relationship—and the traumatic moment which fractured it.

At the root of her complicated family formed by her father and stepmother, a girl faces years of abuse through what they consider to be a “royal beating.”

A woman, living with her husband, is overcome with a strange, inexplicable ailment to her body.