A woman's chronic illness stirs up long-suppressed conflict within her family. As she helplessly listens to her husband and brother-in-law argue about the best treatments, she wishes she could be there to defend her troubled husband.

After a young woman is diagnosed with a grosteque sickness with no known cure, she desperately tries remedies to get better, but slowly loses control over her own life in the process.

A depressed woman drives her friends and therapist crazy, going ceaselessly on about the childhood trauma she incurred during her parents’ divorce settlings.

A privileged young woman from New England falls in love with a practical Midwesterner, but can their love withstand the grief of losing a child?

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Two people die of drug overdose and flu and never meet each other, never get married, and never live their seedy, disappointing lives.

After his wife's death, a man strikes up a romance with a new woman — as well as an unexpected friendship with the woman's ex-husband.

In a world where there is no smell, taste, pain, death, or digestion, the people are left hungering for one thing: love.

A sanitarium patient helps his neighbor grapple with guilt after a romantic tryst in Paris.

A three-years-married couple have lost the spark that once excited them, leading the wife to venture into tentative love affairs.