A physicist single father reflects on his love for his daughter which he struggles to express. When an astronomical tragedy strikes their Texas suburb, the father rushes home, eager to spend the world's last few minutes with his daughter.

An academic prides herself in her powers of observation, but finds herself unable to change the fate of those suffering around her—whether it be a microscopic rotifer in biology lab, a long-dead boy whose letters she reads from the 1800s, or her twenty-one-year old cousin.

A professor of neurobiology describes to horrified police officers how he snapped under his famous physicist wife's controlling tendencies and murdered her.

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?

A married geneticist and pediatrician live across the world from each other. Their daughter watches her father's affair with a woman only seven years her elder in Oxford.

After struggling for years to conceive, Caroline and Ivan weather the perilous emotional storms of pregnancy together. The trials of a long-awaited pregnancy threaten to rip apart Caroline and Ivan's marriage.

When he comes back home from work to find that his wife has been cheating on him, a mad scientist builds a time machine to go back in time and ensure that her mother never gives birth to her, but things don’t turn out as expected.

When a married couple announces that they are getting a divorce, their best friends who are also a couple are forced to confront what this configuration means for their social life.

A young college professor struggles with how to communicate with her father after she learns that he has prostate cancer.

Anxious ahead of an important lecture, a psychology professor blows up after finding a photo of his wife's ex-husband.