In a universe that regenerates continually, producing the exact same timeline with each big bang, humans struggle to find meaning in lives over which they have no control.

A woman on a generation ship is offered the chance of immortality, and ultimately lives long enough to become part of subsequent 'waves' of human evolution - from man, to immortal, to machine, to pure energy - over countless millennia.

In Michigan, a recently divorced professor reflects on what it means to exist, first alone in his empty apartment and then alongside his student in a mission to find a missing girl.

A daughter, on the verge of becoming a mother, learns a great deal in spending time with her own mother.

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

A mother, her two children, and their stepfather come over to a friend’s for a dinner on Labor Day.

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

Years after facing abuse from the hermit overseeing a nature preserve, two children—now adults—enact their revenge.