In New York, a young woman goes to a dinner party with her boss’s friend. After a tense game of charades, too many drinks and a decision to spend the night, she wonders why people make the choices they do and if anyone else will remember them.

Sitting at a bar, a man reminisces about his past experiences with love and develops a philosophy for 'beautiful' relationships that relies on the inevitability of their ends.

A man walks into a bar in Atlanta and becomes intrigued by a clique of regulars. After marrying one of their sisters, causing a rift between her and her brother, he realizes that the bar will not cure his loneliness.

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

A young man invites a tourist to his favorite London café and recounts the strangest affair he’d ever had with a woman he picked up there; a woman who challenged and changed him. A young, beguiling man picks a tourist out of a group and invites him to see the real sites of London, not the tired and disappointing spectacles. He takes the tourist to the Café de Paris, an old but grand establishment with the promise of dancing and young ladies. The man admonishes his companion to loosen up, stay and drink, and while they wait for the evening to unfold the man begins a story.

An old bar cleaner, resentful of the new ownership, decides to play a trick that has drastic consequences.

A bartender sleeps with a regular patron whose brother has recently passed away.

Three people all sit down to talk after a night of drinking, but the agenda of one dinner guest changes the night.

A group of people at a bar discuss their experiences with an eccentric and impulsive boy as they anticipate his arrival.

Two men recovering from their alcoholism sit on a porch at a "drying out" facility. While one talks about his tumultuous marriage, the other begins to reframe his own wife and love affair.