As she walks alongside the Hudson River with her friend, a woman excitedly explains her intricate vision of what would give her happiness.

In a future where technology has advanced to the point where humans can undergo "optimization" to rid themselves of emotions and increase their mental functions, one man decides to cling to his humanity in an effort to atone for his sins and appreciate the beauty of being human.

After being laid off from his job, a man struggles to find meaning in a utopian world where all of his basic needs are already met for him.

A typical nice-guy colleague with a toxically positive attitude delivers an exhortation to his colleagues about eliminating self-doubt so as to increase work performance.

When a young Italian girl goes on vacation for Christmas with her family, her father splurges on her in Verona, and she decides that this is what true happiness is for a child.

As a woman grows older, she falls into a deep sadness while the men around her constantly tell her to cheer up.

A mathematic equation is developed that has the ability to solve the issues in human's lives, but those who can use the equation to help others must first learn to deal with their own lives.

In a dystopian world, a student begins to spiral after he becomes dependent on the drug called "Good" that everyone is injected with daily. Faced with the cruelty of his family and friends, he befriends a strange girl whose family rejects the new societal mechanisms —which may be just what he needs.

A man's lonely life focused on the pursuit of reason and music leaves him questioning what more there may be in the lives of other people and of religion.

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.