The prideful uncle of a child piano prodigy pushes the girl to the detriment of her craft. A veteran musician warns him of the future that lies ahead.

A couple attends the show of a marvelous, sensuous, and regal African American singer in Paris. The wife of the couple finds herself struggling for a grip as the pleasure of seeing this performer infiltrates her fortress of restraint.

An American man moves to Germany and falls in love with a married Norwegian woman in his language class. Their contrasting artistic tastes foretell a fundamental rift.

When a second-rate Czech violinist travels to Iceland to perform around the country, a violent storm breaks out, and he meets an old man on an island who has never heard music before.

A lonely Irish man falls in love with a Polish woman after meeting her in a café. What could be a perfect relationship turns south when he learns that his solitude and her history aren’t quite so easy to erase.

An American man falls in love with a polish woman in Poland. However, the beginning of World War II causes tensions in the relationship.

A young boy in a Jewish family in Poland during the WWII era doesn't understand what's going on, but he can tell something is wrong when his family and their friends begin to gather and flee their home.

A Polish man living in America who inherits the title of Count after his parents' death has spent his life studying and teaching political philosophy in Chicago. His formal and aristocratic habits stick out among Americans, and when he begins dating one of his students, a young Jewish woman and a divorcee, he wonders if he can ever truly change his ways.

In the post-WW1 streets of Paris, a jilted lover tries to get revenge, thwarted at every turn by two bumbling Americans.

A middle-aged writer attends a friend's party while his wife is away with the children, but he struggles to enjoy his time as he finds himself caught uncomfortably in the middle of the arguments, declarations of love, and existential crises of the other guests.