A middle-aged, single, hairdresser spends the day spreading gossip from client to client. She ends her busy day with an ultimate act of meddling.

A quiet gardener and shopkeeper defies her town's cruel gossips to shelter a destitute young woman.

Two men sit outdoors at a restaurant during the Great Depression and gossip about the experiences and occupations of individuals they've encountered.

A newcomer in a small town joins a knitting group where she learns the trade and gossip about the recent disappearances. After she becomes a proficient knitter, she is invited to a secretive knitting group and discovers the horrific reality behind the missing people.

On a close-knit street, two women commit suicide a week apart from each other. When an ambulance arrives, the adults with a hushed-silence, and the kids joke about dead bodies to torment a local woman.

When a couple buys a new radio, the wife becomes obsessed with its ability to catch conversations of their neighbors private lives.

When a sixteen-year-old boy from Indiana visits his uncle to learn more about the family newspaper, he learns about the true life of his deceased father and goes to the spot where he died.

In an East Ohio town, a middle-aged man checks into a hotel and explores the various characters, events and surroundings that define small town life.

Lynnie is a young, working-class girl who works at the Stone House in town and wastes her days making stories about the lives of the people around her, which she tells to her friend, Isobel. But when rumors start to circulate, Isobel mysteriously moves away, and Lynnie is left wondering why.

After a man finds out his wife is having an affair from a butt dial, he invites strangers walking on the street into his apartment to chat and ease his turmoil.