Desperate to feel some sense of human connection, an old man begins to look into the secrets of the land he owns and the people who lived there before him.

Upon the death of their tyrannical mistress, three old maids venture to the place she forbade them to go and reminisce about her life.

A greedy old landlord contemplates the end of his life as his tenacious tenant's demands of reparation for his wife's death drives him closer to madness. Nearing the end of his life, a stingy landlord refuses to pay for his tenant's funeral bill and becomes entranced by a pregnant squatter on his property.

A woman moves into a new housing development at the insistence of her married lover but finds herself bitter and unhappy with the life she is living. Things begin to fall apart after the death of her lover's son, leaving her alone to face the consequences of her immoral love affair and an ancient curse.

A first-generation Welsh man goes back to his father’s hometown for a funeral, where the neighbor’s son was crushed under his father’s toppled stone gate. Suddenly his father, who has lived morosely but peaceably in his decrepit cottage, finds the town has turned against him. A Welsh man’s father falls in disfavor with his hometown when the neighbor’s child is crushed under his toppled stone gate.

A man watches an old woman visit an abandoned house in his neighborhood year after year, and he tries to piece her story together from town gossip.

An elderly woman in a suburban town visits an old neighbor at a nursing home. What could have been a cordial, quiet day becomes tainted with the subtle melancholia of growing old and seeing the world change irreparably around oneself.

After the death of their father, two twins attempt to find answers to the unexpected death. A young lawyer ends up revealing the truth after the murder of the town judge allows him to connect the two deaths and pinpoint the murderer.

An aging man returns to Salt Lake City to bury his aunt. When he realizes that the funeral home has taken over a building that formed the center of his high school social life, reminiscences, revelations, and regrets overwhelm him.

When Harold's wife dies, seemingly by malicious cause, he becomes the prime suspect. As the public defender investigates her death, he finds that she may have held secrets herself.