A seasoned dentist meets his most difficult patient yet — a young man with mouth full of cavities who refuses anesthesia.

A longtime dentist's receptionist accepts a dinner invitation from a new coworker and her boyfriend; as the evening unfolds, the women realize they both have traumas in their past.

A morose middle-aged man's dull life is turned around when he gives a ride to a money-embezzling dental receptionist who's trying to skip out on her life.

A middle-aged man in a small Northern town is desperate to escape his mundane routines and imagines rash and violent actions that might give his life meaning.

A co-worker gives a new staff member an introductory tour of the office, while providing small gossip about other employees along the way.

A man works in an emergency room alongside his friend, and they take a concoction of different drugs that blurs the lines between their current shift and their break as well as between reality and fiction.

On her drive to her hometown in Georgia, a medical student contemplates the recent death of her reckless friend and picks up a stranger with a cast on the side of the road.

In present-day New York City, a strained lawyer writes to a stranger, an eating disorder doctor, in hopes of confronting the man about an overheard phone conversation.

A man in the metalworking industry is blinded by a tragic work accident and finds himself using humor as a coping mechanism and way to cover up his own fears while in the hospital.

A man meets two women on a train and is occupied by the talkative one, but enamored by the quiet one.