A three-years-married couple have lost the spark that once excited them, leading the wife to venture into tentative love affairs.

A married woman begins a flirtatious affair with her husband's former student, but when her cousin comes to visit, the woman realizes just how much she's sacrificed.

A professor's wife, who has only ever worked to advance her husband's career, explores her autonomy outside of her marriage in the mid-20th century.

A middle-aged widower dreams of asking a younger local woman to be his wife, but it has been years since his wife died and he has forgotten how to court a woman. As the woman continues to visit his cabin, he must work up the courage to tell her how he feels.

After her husband leaves her, a middle-aged woman reminisces about their years of marriage. Encouraged by her therapist, who thinks that her husband is going through a temporary midlife crisis, the woman waits for her husband and is convinced that he will come back.

A female novelist asks her friend for help with her story about a woman who has a reputation for her husbands dying during marriage. The friend offers a story idea that seems oddly similar to the author's life.

A professor in an unhappy marriage obsesses over and fantasizes about a much younger student, imagining how he will age.

A woman gets married and chooses to leave her busy job as a stenographer. She soon becomes restless in the daily short-lived tedium of housewifery and begins developing feelings for a new man.

As a university professor acts as a sounding board for everyone else’s problems, her own stress mounts to a dangerous peak.

A depressed Indian woman trapped in a decades-long, passionless marriage recalls the one day when she truly loved her husband.