Following his breakup, a Japanese college student uses savings from his relationship as a means to quit his summer mowing job, but not without first helping a woman who asks, but doesn't appear to need, for her lawn to be mowed.

During her conversations with her mother, a daughter often muses about the past, both politically and personally. She discovers more about her mother but also about the world around her as she observes life and its souvenirs.

A man looks back on his father-in-law's life after he passes away, thinking of the many jobs he held and his military service.

A man thinks about his relationship with his parents (especially his mother) as he watches them grow old. He then realizes that he is now old too.

Following a messy breakup, an MIT graduate and a PhD student at Indiana University separately talk about the problems in their former relationship in two spliced-together conversations, exploring conflicts surrounding language, intimacy, commitment, and intellectualism.

As a man tosses out his old things during the pandemic, he thinks back to the lives he lived with them.

A man reflects on the past week while an unexpected storm rages outside, and he compares the events that follow with the fall of the Roman Empire.

A son takes his aging mother back on a visit to his childhood home. Though he expected the house to remain at least a little bit familiar, both his fromer home and his mother had changed considerably with the passing of time.

A girl's brother commits suicide and she relives the moments leading up to his death as if he is alive again in the present.

Throughout her life, a young woman from the future has gathered evidence about her ancestors to understand the way they lived before and during the era when society was reimagined.