A teenager spends the summer dealing with the unsettling company of two older boys. As he spends time dating girls, he becomes increasingly uncertain about what he truly wants in life.

A young boy grows up avoiding his abusive mother and idolizing two men in his life: his father and a boy in his class. But when both of his heroes betray him, he turns to his mother for comfort.

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.

After his newspaper route, a young paperboy enters a Southern café, only to be roped into a philosophical conversation surrounding love by an old man.

When a new woman catches his eye, an aging barber attempts to break out of his long cycle of failed relationships and accept her for who she is.

An elderly Russian man comes across a young American in a park and tells the young man about coming of age in Russia.

In this metafiction, the many lives of an unnamed man are scrutinized as he passes through millennia.

An old man becomes aware of the finality of his life, and that he couldn't find much meaning to it anymore.

A teenage boy tries to navigate his personal relationships while he attempts to understand his many experiences of domestic and interpersonal violence. He struggles to find connection with anyone other than his eccentric, ailing grandfather.

A teenage boy searches a bookstore for the perfect gay romance novel, learning an important lesson about literary representation.