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

In an apocalyptic future where Earth has been ravaged, a lonely man studies the stars until, one day, they come to him.

A woman who is not content with life and fears staying in one place works as a traveling writer, recording her thoughts and interactions on tape recorders and finding different lovers in each place she visits.

A woman's husband dies, and she leaves their hometown in Michigan to drift between countries, finally landing in Venice, completely broke — until a mysterious man approaches her, offering to help.

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.

A young man who has wasted his life finds himself sucked into a non-human world — a gray, ghostly landscape to which those who don't make use of their time are drawn, potentially forever.

A fifty-year-old man from Michigan attempts to interpret a recurring dream about walking around his city with a woman that resembles his wife.

An older man goes off on a quest through the desert to find a fortune despite there seeming to be no hope.

Upon returning to Paris after a decade-long hiatus wandering the French countryside and writing an epic, a poet encounters an enigmatic young woman who believes he is a god and wants to be his disciple,

A young man in a post-apocalyptic future embarks on a journey to take his parents' ashes to an impossible mountaintop ocean, despite tragic tales of the ill-fated travelers who made the journey before.