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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.

A girl flees her home when her parents want to send her back to her abusive husband.

When a woman finds her purse stolen, she retraces the steps of her eventful day only to realize that the encounters, and her life as a whole, are empty and purposeless.

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

A divorced 16 year old girl reflects on how the sexual trauma she experienced as a child perpetuates in her relationships with men throughout her life, forcing herself to grow up too early and leaving her starved for affection and love.

A man trying to find meaning in life has an affair with a girl. He struggles with whether he should tell his wife.

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

Knowing that some things happen only once in a lifetime, a man walking down a street is convinced that he sees the girl of his dreams and wonders if fate is telling him to leave his wife.

A conversation with his former lover opens a man's eyes to his tendency to flee rather than confront the hopeless reality of his own life.

A man in pursuit of gold comes to learn how an obsession with wealth can tear away all your meaningful connections.