When a World War II soldier returns home to San Francisco, memories of a late friend keep him from enjoying the normalcy of civilian life.

A girl flees her home when her parents want to send her back to her abusive husband.

A newly discharged veteran from World War II is finally on a train back home and anticipates his return to mundane life, even if he carries the burdens of war. Elsewhere across the ocean, Hitler anticipates his return to power.

Going through his daily motions, a Delaware farmer stops for a second to reminisce on an intimate near-death experience he shared with a mysterious boy during World War II.

A woman reluctantly visits her old friends in Grimsby for the weekend, feeling like their good times are far behind. Though the conversations are genial, she considers how they've changed over time.

An American veteran who watched his friend drown in a field of excrement in Vietnam drives in circles around the lake in his hometown ruminating on how he might have saved his friend, won a Silver Star for valor, and made his father proud.

An Italian family waits anxiously for the return of a brother who is serving in the First World War, but the family dynamic devolves as the days pass and he does not come home.

An Irish writer working on deadline tells a story about a female marine in Afghanistan who is estranged from her family. As the story grows, the Irish writer is confronted with unwelcome regrets concerning his own difficult family life.

Caught up in memories of the past, a woman remembers a fateful summer dinner party at the start of World War II that left her family more divided than ever.

A young woman is returning to her husband and parents in New York, after having left her husband for a brief affair. As her father drives her home and reminisces on the hard work it took to build a life at their farmhouse, she learns that he hasn't told anyone else she's coming home.