A man recounts his life experience in New York, covering the various people near and dear to him, as well as the growth of the city itself.

A young adolescent gang leader steals a flashlight, which helps him find a new way to see the gang activity in his city.

When a friend from his drug-dealing past shows up unannounced, a filmographer who lives in the suburbs of Long Island must reckon with how to preserve his suburban fantasy while he tries to save his friend from their former dealer.

An unhappy woman lives in the slums of New York only to watch her life transform as her children become wildly successful, catapulting her into an unrecognizable world of extravagance.

In a small university town in the 1960s, a mysterious couple moves into the attic and keeps to themselves, leaving the neighbors to wonder what goes on behind closed doors. Through gossip and rumors, the neighbors witness the slow unraveling of Mr. Markham's life.

A new tenant overhears her neighbors on a sleepless night. The lovers’ quarrel reveals that things aren’t always better in the light of day.

After the loss of their newborn, a man goes on an obsessive house hunt in a new city to prepare for his depressed wife's arrival.

In a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, an environmental analyst moves into an enigmatic shelter for the unhoused to search for his former student’s mother. But after meeting a man who claims to have exited the house through a special window, the analyst finds himself on a quest to learn more about the shelter and its creation before the authorities catch up to him.

A 62-year-old man has moved back to Oakland. After a confrontation with his neighbors about his aggressive dog, he reflects on his arrival to the neighborhood years ago, when his mother left him behind.

An unnamed narrator muses about the layout and the mundane emptiness at a neighborhood intersection. A man later gets out of a streetcar at the intersection and enters one of the brick buildings.