The trophy wife of a campaigning politician fears a life in the spotlight, which leads her to try to undermine and sabotage his candidacy.

A young librarian with two dead parents moves across the country and meets an idealistic but shallow man. When their relationship falls apart, he urges her to give more of herself to the community, ignorant of the ways in which she's had to give so much away already.

While experiencing a midlife crisis, a respectable man must choose between his wife and his commitment to an eccentric political party.

A woman returns home to her family having just slept with another man. At dinner, her son gets into an argument with his father about their privilege. As the narrative moves back to the time they spent abroad in Nigeria, Burma and Ecuador, fractures in the family life are revealed.

A group of patriarchal intellectuals entertain themselves by exploring the politics of World War II-era United States, meanwhile controlling and abusing the women in their lives.

In intense discussion a group leader ponders aloud, asking why hermits hide and what defines outcasts, among other cerebral queries. A group of friends discusses the oddities they have seen and perceived in their lives leather-clad hermits and criminal astronauts among them. They debate the purpose of hermitage, the classification of outcasts, and the purpose of their own reflections.

A wealthy man in Chicago suddenly learns about the untimely death of a poor woman he'd been dating. Confronted with her child, whom he'd begun to develop a bond with, he must determine to what extent he will allow his greed to overcome his compassion.

In the early 1970s, a listless radical must decide what to do with his life as his social circle of grassroots activists dwindles.

When a philosophy professor is called into a committee meeting for inappropriate behavior, she stews over what got her here, and how.

A graduate student finds himself embroiled in a strange sort of psychological game after he agrees to write a paper for another well-off student.