In a small rural town in the 1930s, three friends — a farmer’s wife, a music teacher and adulteress, and a single huntswoman — drift away from one another as they grow older, choosing unexpected futures for themselves.

Two narcissistic adult daughters take exception to their wealthy parents' houseguests, a priest mourning his dead lover, and the strange and frumpy American woman Arleen. But Arleen possesses insight into the family that the girls' own parents lack.

A woman reluctantly visits her old friends in Grimsby for the weekend, feeling like their good times are far behind. Though the conversations are genial, she considers how they've changed over time.

A young woman struggles in her role as both mother and wife. Her unhappiness with her life seeps into her very being, and causes her to act out in strange ways.

A woman gets married and chooses to leave her busy job as a stenographer. She soon becomes restless in the daily short-lived tedium of housewifery and begins developing feelings for a new man.

After a visit to the tropics, a woman returns to her husband and New England home. She struggles with the transition back to her regular life after she realizes that she felt happier and more at home in the tropics.

In a small village in Ireland, a single mother of three copes with the loss of her husband and the increasingly hectic responsibilities of raising three daughters by seeking happiness above all else.

Ten years after leaving, a woman returns to Ireland and finds her longtime crush now married with children.

While on vacation in the countryside, a woman prepares lunch for her husband and their daughter, only to have her plans spoiled when their daughter insists on going to the neighbor's farm to watch a goat give birth.

In the far future, a Welsh woman temporarily moves to a space colony on a distant planet with her husband, Owen. The woman regals her space-born daughter with tales of the wonders of Earth, and her daughter develops a great longing for Earth that eventually puts her life at risk.