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.

A lovestruck journalist and a torn painter pull the threads of their affair in opposite directions: he desires something more permanent, while she feels indebted to her husband and sons.

A self-hating self-help celebrity prepares to levy a shocking accusation against her ex-boyfriend.

After falling in love with another man, an insecure woman attempts to discuss her current marriage with her husband while they drink in a bar.

In post-World War II Japan, a boy is raised by his frigid father without love and spends the rest of his life endlessly pursuing it.

A privileged young woman from New England falls in love with a practical Midwesterner, but can their love withstand the grief of losing a child?

Vignettes of a number of relationships, most of them troubled, are glimpsed through the descriptions of creatures in this bestiary of the imaginary.

In a world where there is no smell, taste, pain, death, or digestion, the people are left hungering for one thing: love.

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.

As a strictly sexual affair stretches past its expiration date, a woman and her taken lover struggle to define their burgeoning feelings for each other.