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A woman's obsession with her childhood reflection leads her sailor husband to gift her a full-length mirror that changes the family’s dynamics.
In a series of commentaries on the human condition — life, truth, happiness, death — a spinster sister takes in her dead sister’s children; a man is entranced by the endless waves which roll and crash in the ocean; a carpenter wrestles with the burden of being everyone’s confidante; a dying railroad crossing watchman shares a simple but complex wisdom.
In a futuristic society, after his wife's death, a man starts re-watching her life through the hundreds of hours of surveillance footage recorded by a personal drone.
A dissatisfied man buys "miracle" mirror polish from a mysterious stranger and becomes obsessed with how the polish changes his reflection and that of his lover.
A woman reflects on what happened when her downstairs neighbor, an older Korean man, suffers from a seizure at their shared patio.
A man working at a home for disabled folks reflects on a day in his life.
In the quarantine stage of the 2020 pandemic, a woman and her husband reflect on their marriage, how time has somehow conflated, making them, at once, who they are now and who they used to be.
A sister and her half-brother are suspicious when the boy's father, who was a heroin addict, returns home for a visit. The father's relapse throws their relationship into chaos, but then he bestows a unique gift on the children before he leaves.
In a distant future in which technological advances have extended human lifespans, a man must decide whether or not to upload his dying Cuban refugee mother’s consciousness to a digital “habitat” technology he has developed, where she can live out her life in virtual simulation back home in Cuba.
Following a messy breakup, an MIT graduate and a PhD student at Indiana University separately talk about the problems in their former relationship in two spliced-together conversations, exploring conflicts surrounding language, intimacy, commitment, and intellectualism.