After their stay in a rundown boardinghouse, a boy and his mother hunt for an apartment and the boy dreams of a house with a warm fireplace of his own.

While her boyfriend travels through Europe, a paralegal moves into a new apartment with two new roommates. Against the backdrop of their wildly dissimilar personalities, she reexamines her values.

A roomer lives in a house of an old couple in Long Island. He lives a meager life and witnesses strange things in his small town full of gossip and secrets.

A lonely old man comes to visit a married woman's apartment, which she and her husband are renting out for the summer while they travel to Europe—however, the woman becomes suspicious that the old man is not actually interested in renting at all.

The landlord of a New York City Brownstone is murdered and through a series of overlapping anecdotes, one of his tenants claims to have solved the mystery.

When his landlord tells him he must move out by the end of the month, a jobless, penniless young man has to find a way to start over while he navigates corruption all around him.

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 young Black aspiring writer takes a job as a janitor in a building near Harvard Square where he befriends his retired predecessor and gains a new perspective on life.

A New Yorker in HR is sent to her company's branch in a midwestern town for six weeks, where she finds herself taken by a minimalist lifestyle. However, her husband's criticism leads her to slink back to her old city life.

A graduate student at Columbia begins working as a research assistant to an eccentric older man, later discovering that they are looking into the life of a girl who was murdered.