In the mid-20th century, a middle-aged couple is preparing for their second marriage. Their wedding causes the other members of their community — young and old — to consider the purpose of marriage.

After a groom leaves town the night before his wedding, the bride-to-be embarks on a road trip, only to find him with one of her absentee fiancé's female friends.

A peasant woman's life of hardship after a marriage without a dowry portion means she'll do anything to ensure her cruel, miserly husband produces a portion for their beautiful daughter.

After building their dream rural life together in the mountains, a humble couple goes into Rome for their honeymoon and begins to question if their partner would be more satisfied with someone resembling the modern city dwellers around them.

In a small rural town in the 1930s, three friends — a farmer’s wife, a music teacher and adulteress, and a single huntswoman — drift away from one another as they grow older, choosing unexpected futures for themselves.

A middle-aged, widowed man realizes his new wife and her brutish brother are slowly taking over his farm.

When a friend's wedding forces her to reunite with both a past flame and her former abuser, a young woman must confront some old wounds.

A woman in Ireland finally gets to be with her long-lost love, but only after he is tragically made a widower when his previous wife passes from an illness, leading the new wife to compare herself to the perfect, kind, dead one.

A blissfully naïve young couple hopes to avoid the fate of the husband's unhappy parents, but as his jealous mother, children, and resentments come between them, the young couple falls into the same pitfalls.

On the train ride to their honeymoon, young newlyweds bicker over inconsequential issues that appear as though will never be resolved.