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

When a woman finds her purse stolen, she retraces the steps of her eventful day only to realize that the encounters, and her life as a whole, are empty and purposeless.

After a dying mother instructs her children to find their distant aunt and new guardian, they must step outside the home they have always known and embark on a journey toward their new life.

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.

A young woman travels the highway to her eerie childhood home only to remember why she left in the first place.

A group of friends realize they have been living vicariously through one of their friend's travel stories for their entire lives.

Two brothers are left under the unreliable care of their alcoholic uncle when their parents leave town.

In a rural town, a woman attempts to run away, with her three children, from her abusive husband. While the feat seems straightforward at first, a series of complications causes their escape to become increasingly precarious.

After one of her father's notebooks is recovered from an icecap, a woman recalls the love story between her mother, a rural woman who always wanted adventure, and her father, an adventurous explorer who disappeared on a voyage to the Arctic.

A young man travels to the mountains to visit a woman and her family. Unsure of his feelings towards her, Richard chats with her family while trying to determine his true purpose for visiting.