On a May morning, a Quaker family rushes to prepare for a party they are hosting for their neighbors that night.

A young priest who sees the world through rose-colored glasses admires an older woman dedicated to the parish. When she requests that he visit her, his overly optimistic expectations of churchgoers, and his honor of being a young clergyman, are challenged.

An aging woman visits her childhood friend in the basement of a wealthy woman’s home where she cooks. She’s fascinated when her friend describes her employer’s religious practices and wonders if new scripture might help her navigate her life.

An old man tells his grandson a story about a crazy Jesuit who used to preach to cockroaches.

A Catholic priest's typical mundane routine is interrupted by a sick woman who requests his presence in fear of her own death. However, what Father Macdowell soon understands is that the woman's wishes conflict greatly with her protective lover, who sees no importance in religious practices.

After witnessing a wife wracked with grief stand over her husband's dead body, a priest is filled with anxiety at the thought of both his own and his loved ones' mortality.

In a Priory community by a yellow lake, a young man works for his mother's acquaintance to build the basement of her beach house. He is pushed to complete the project before the community summer solstice celebration, though the celebration turns out to be a rather cheerless, mundane success without necessitating the finished basement anyway.

A minister’s young daughter, whose mother suffers from depression, wears a controversial costume to an evangelical church gathering. While hiding from adults, she stumbles upon an exorcism.

After a young teenager falls in love with a priest’s daughter, he tries to prove his maturity to her but is shocked when his efforts are undermined by someone he’d once idolized.

A young priest comes down with a debilitating illness when another pastor is sent to join his parish.