A sixteen-year-old Catholic schoolboy and his crew plot to save up for a night at a local whorehouse. He wrestles between parching lust for the nameless female essence and soft, wavering love for his sweetheart, finally feeling the two sensations meld into one when the experience is through.

A man visits his girlfriend in the countryside and begins to realize that she loves someone else.

A young woman recounts three times in her life when she felt emotions of an unexplainable transcendent love: watching a ballet for the first time, making eye contact with an attractive librarian in high school, and listening to an old professor lecture during night classes at a university.

A college student becomes infatuated with a classmate who is engaged to her long-distance-boyfriend. The romantic rollercoaster affects the ways he sees the world for years to come.

A man remembers a fateful autumn during his junior year of high school, which he spent playing football in apple orchards, riding in his best friend's car, and falling in love.

A middle-aged writer turns back the clock by twenty years and narrates his ill-fated romance with the beautiful but unattainable girl from his memories.

In Japan, a man takes in his transgender childhood friend after she shows up at his apartment. He is driven by guilt that he abandoned her when they were younger, and he must now grapple with feelings of guilt and budding emotion.

A nerdy high school senior harbors a crush on her now-popular childhood best friend as she babysits his younger brother. When a plane crashes near their school and she lies and says she saw it, her crush takes an interest in her after years of ignoring her.

A woman recalls her sexual relationships when she was a teenager in a boarding school, noticing her regression from a passionate and energetic to a cynical and emotionally drained lover.

A man trying to find meaning in life has an affair with a girl. He struggles with whether he should tell his wife.