Three young siblings feel the effects of the Great Depression through their father's salary cut and change in mood. They hold a sales event to help their father which turns out to be a success.

A man during the Great Depression gets a job. However, he is wracked with guilt as he watches other people less fortunate than him.

After a terrible accident, a boy and his family spend the next years in a depression that verges masochism.

Following a breakup, a woman trapped in a nine-to-five office job becomes depressed and begins to consider suicide.

A married couple tries to make ends meet for their hungry and sick children in the midst of the Depression but soon realize that sheer willpower cannot save them from the ruthless winter.

As a woman grows older, she falls into a deep sadness while the men around her constantly tell her to cheer up.

A mother reflects on her failures to improve the troubled upbringing of her first daughter, who she raised as a single parent during the Great Depression.

A depressed woman searches for a new apartment in her city. As she prepares to move, lethargy threatens to inundate her.

A mentally-ill, suicidal man writes letters to different people about prominent memories in his life from his birth onwards—some nostalgic, some thankful, some apologetic, and some confessional.

In an unlikely encounter, a homeless teenage boy recounts harsh events of his life to a writer. He nonchalantly tells of an employer whose assignments caused him to have permanent physical and mental damage.