After twelve years at sea, an elderly sailor must decide if he should return to Liverpool to search for his lover, or if he is too old for love to even try.

A young married woman meets an intense older woman on a cruise ship who regales her with the tale of an old affair and the lessons she learned from it.

A young sailor returns to New York with plans to propose to his girlfriend, but when the evening does not go as planned, he finds himself reconnecting with an old friend.

In a dance hall in San Fransisco, a young man is confronted by a massive older sailor who wishes to win over one of the dancing girls. When the dancer rejects the sailor yet again, the young man recognizes her power over the sailor and daydreams about his own romantic fantasies.

A sailor on the Atlantic Ocean attempts to cure his loneliness at sea by writing about his travels. When he tries to befriend his fellow crewmates, only one man reciprocates — but even their friendship is tenuous.

An old sailor is tricked by his friend’s brother into sailing with his old crew into a bad storm. When he returns to the port, he plans his revenge but has a surprising change of heart in light of a friend's good news.

Sailors on a British naval ship ostracize a fellow crew member. When tragedy strikes, the man’s heroism changes the heart of one of his peers.

Frustrated with the state of his own marriage, a sailor finds himself in a state of unbearable anger when the ship's engineer divulges his fiancée's private correspondence, leading to a confrontation between the two men.

A young sailor rents a room while waiting for his ship and befriends his neighbor—a peculiar middle-aged gentleman with a hobby for wood carving.

A young girl tries to connect to a mysterious, sullen Frenchman whose only love seems to be his ship.