A woman’s desperate desire for love in Paris leads to her some dark places.

In the midst of World War II, two lovesick foreigners meet at a nightclub in Rio and indulge in the company of each other while still languishing after previous relationships.

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.

A woman in Ireland finally gets to be with her long-lost love, but only after he is tragically made a widower when his previous wife passes from an illness, leading the new wife to compare herself to the perfect, kind, dead one.

A conversation with his former lover opens a man's eyes to his tendency to flee rather than confront the hopeless reality of his own life.

A Russian man recalls the first time he fell in love.

An American writer travels to Sophia where he meets a famous poetess. He falls in love with her and her attitude.

A young man reunites with his wife after she flies from Port-au-Prince to New York City, but seven years apart and numerous affairs have created distance between them.

A man writes a letter to his close friend updating him on his new wife, or lack thereof.

Coworkers at a newspaper gleefully tease one of their peers for his constant stream of passionate affairs, culminating in an intervention when he brings back from Spain the most ludicrous girlfriend yet.