Set in 1914 Detroit, a young man with a life threatening condition is forced to live a mundane life protected from the outside world. When a new friend begins showing him the joys life has to offer, he is forced to decide how he wants to live.

Knowing that his wife only has a year left to live, an elderly man puts aside the bitterness in their marriage to make her as happy and comfortable as possible.

After a bout of cardiac insufficiency, a middle-aged, successful lawyer chafes against the restrictive conditions of his recovery and begins to rely on his young son for reassurance.

A retired couple live a comfortable life in the suburbs of Maryland, but they cannot escape thoughts of death and mourning, even as the husband and wife attend an extravagant toga-themed house warming party in their neighborhood.

In a series of commentaries on the human condition — life, truth, happiness, death — a spinster sister takes in her dead sister’s children; a man is entranced by the endless waves which roll and crash in the ocean; a carpenter wrestles with the burden of being everyone’s confidante; a dying railroad crossing watchman shares a simple but complex wisdom.

After being put in a nursing home by her daughter, an elderly woman feels her family slipping away from her until it is too late for reconciliation.

When her husband's heart condition lands him in the hospital, an elderly woman living in Florida reevaluates the formative events of her life.

A humanoid immortal figure lives through the years following the death of her friend. As she watches the last of her friend's lineage die after 600 years, she reflects on the nature of her relationship with the friend.

A one-hundred-year-old man questions his will to live when he sees the ghost of his deceased wife one night.

In a dystopian world where people stay young forever, a brother and sister encounter an old man for the first time, and must decide whether or not to turn him in.