Having been hospitalized for a long time, a young girl finds herself surrounded by people who cannot understand the strangeness of her illness. After her friend visits her, she must accept that her relationships may never be the same, and that her expectations that tether her to a life outside of the hospital may be very different from the disappointing reality.

A dying boy lies in his hospital bed dreaming of home while his father comes to terms with the knowledge that nothing is enough to save his son.

While driving a heart transplant to a patient on the verge of death, a man reflects on his past and the importance of his work.

A new mother wakes up after giving birth to her son and upon gazing at his face, feels an ephemeral peace that only comes once in a lifetime.

A cancer patient undergoes her treatment and struggles to distract herself from the pain by remembering conversations with her ex-husband.

In the days after his wife dies, an older man must confront his newly solitary life, both the good and the bad.

After a drunk college boy falls off a balcony, a slew of characters--a groundskeeper, another student, a chaplain, and an RA--relate to his death in different ways. Their stories are sidelined for the core matter: that a boy died.

A country doctor has been treating a dying woman for a while. However, as she dies, the doctor realizes how pointless everything is.

After finding out that her toddler has cancer, a fiction writer and her husband living in the American Midwest do everything they can to save their baby, including giving up her artistic integrity in order to pay for the medical bills.

While comatose, a sixty-five-year old man reflects on his past love for a city called Williamstown as his grown children discuss his terminal illness.