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

A slice of grim parts of life

An academic who is dying from breast cancer and high on morphine reflects on her sense of failure in her lifelong pursuit of artistic brilliance. She decides her failing body has become her great work of art.

Having been hospitalized for a long time, a young girl finds herself surrounded by people who cannot understand the strangeness of her illness. After her friend visits her, she must accept that her relationships may never be the same, and that her expectations that tether her to a life outside of the hospital may be very different from the disappointing reality.

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

Three months after the death of his wife, a man tries to convince himself that he has not truly suffered a loss, all the while missing his wife more than ever.

In the days after his wife dies, an older man must confront his newly solitary life, both the good and the bad.

After two of a man's acquaintances die by suicide, he goes on a hunting trip and can't stop thinking about why they wanted to die.

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

After accidentally killing a friend's baby, a 35 year old woman tries to find her footing again at her husband's academic conference in Europe—but finds herself struggling with herself and her marriage.