A young would-be poet develops a complicated relationship with the most famous living Bosnian poet at the time. This relationship ends decades later on another continent when that poet dies, and the young man finds a life of his own that doesn't involve poetry.

Curious about a poet incarcerated for horrible crimes, a woman tries to get closer to poetry—and to him.

A heartbroken man remembers his ex-lover while reading about the dramatic end to the relationship between two famous poets and listening to his favorite musician.

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

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

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

A daughter, on the verge of becoming a mother, learns a great deal in spending time with her own mother.

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