In a small town, an anxious middle-aged woman befriends a young cashier, who tries to teach her that not all romance ends in violence.

At a mundane dinner party, adults dance the night away while two ten-year-olds hide and explore their bodies together.

A young girl engages in a private affair with a much older man to prove that she is a woman, and in doing so, feels joy at the secret she is hiding from her watchful mother.

Of the many women at the archaeology firm fawning at their handsome, well-educated boss, Brigitte is the plainest and least confident. But when Brigitte grabs the attention of the boss one day by accidentally appearing at the company gala in her birthday suit, their romance — and her professional reputation — takes a turn for the unexpected.

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

A maid, silently and in thought alone, contemplates her own position in a house full of opulent, decadent lives.

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 embarks on a treacherous, snowy journey to help her friend.

The ex-wife of a famous male writer considers a story he wrote about a neighbor they once had.