An immigrant woman reflects on her courtship with her husband. She thinks of how she beguiled her husband with stories about her grandfather's friendship with scientist Gregor Mendel, and how they remind her of untold stories about her sexual assault.

A young woman finds the letters that her aunt wrote to her while the aunt was in a concentration camp, helping her mother give birth and raise the young woman

In a bridge-building reconciliation workshop between Jews and Nazi descendants, a Jewish woman and a Nazi descendant attempt to connect with each other. At the conclusion of the workshop, wounds have not been healed, but perhaps a greater understanding has been reached.

A maid, silently and in thought alone, contemplates her own position in a house full of opulent, decadent lives.

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

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

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

A woman embarks on a treacherous, snowy journey to help her friend.