An awkward Connecticut professor tries to cure his loneliness by dating tens of women, all to no avail.

An unemployed woman in a contemporary urban setting passes a slow day at home, where mundanities consume her and reality seems far away.

A woman loses her glasses at a rest stop on the way to visit her girlfriend. She knows that her girlfriend will be furious if she is late, and that she cannot drive without her glasses, so she accepts help from a strange man who leads her down the highway and they begin to walk the rest of the way together.

In 1950s New York a janitor goes on an uncharacteristic date with a coworker, getting to know the city and its dating scene.

An unemployed man struggles to help an equally penniless, yet shockingly beautiful, young woman in her search for food and shelter.

Walking around town, a man acts as a good samaritan, offering money and assistance to anyone he passes by. He seems to be genuinely kind-hearted until his conversation with his wife upon returning home suggests his compassion is only performative.

An unemployed husband learns of an affair between his wife and her boss. He writes an emotional letter to the boss that details the course of his failing marriage, and he pleads with the boss to not take his wife away from him.

A man working for a theater company puts out an ad for actors, which is answered by a throng of homeless men.

A woman tries to convince her husband to quit his exhausting job as a traveling salesman. She reflects on the impossibility of having everything that she wants.

A woman driving through California picks up a hitchhiking man, sparking her to reflect on the ways she is perceived, and desires to be perceived, as a woman in a male-dominated world.