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.

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

In a missive to his ex-girlfriend, a wistful man remembers the impact of one horrifying night on their sex life and relationship.

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

A lovestruck journalist and a torn painter pull the threads of their affair in opposite directions: he desires something more permanent, while she feels indebted to her husband and sons.

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

As a strictly sexual affair stretches past its expiration date, a woman and her taken lover struggle to define their burgeoning feelings for each other.

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.

While coping with the grief of losing her husband, a woman dreams of a mysterious young couple hand-in-hand in Central Park and begins to live vicariously through their new, gentle love.

Sitting on a plane headed for Cincinnati, a man meets a woman who reminds him of a girl he once knew, and the worst thing he's ever done.