A young woman recounts three times in her life when she felt emotions of an unexplainable transcendent love: watching a ballet for the first time, making eye contact with an attractive librarian in high school, and listening to an old professor lecture during night classes at a university.

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

A young man tells the story of his first love after smelling a perfume that reminds him of the woman from his childhood.

A young couple helplessly in love spend their last night together at a park before they begin college at different schools.

A man visits his girlfriend in the countryside and begins to realize that she loves someone else.

After her possessions begin to disappear from her apartment, a woman suspects that her adoring new husband is not who she thought he was.

Sitting at a bar, a man reminisces about his past experiences with love and develops a philosophy for 'beautiful' relationships that relies on the inevitability of their ends.

In a small town, a teenage girl who suffers from sexual harassment and assault finds first love, escapes her abusive household, and begins to heal.

An old man recounts the story of how he met his wife while traveling to Birmingham to look for work. Though they are initially strangers, the man is determined to win over his future-wife, despite her parents' hesitations.

A divorced 16 year old girl reflects on how the sexual trauma she experienced as a child perpetuates in her relationships with men throughout her life, forcing herself to grow up too early and leaving her starved for affection and love.