A woman who is not content with life and fears staying in one place works as a traveling writer, recording her thoughts and interactions on tape recorders and finding different lovers in each place she visits.

A man leaves his family in NYC to look for a job out West. During the trip, he helps an injured young boy, sleeps with a waitress, and considers leaving his family for good.

In a small town, a resident watches as the people and place change. He recounts eight seemingly disparate stories, but the town connects them all.

A woman's husband dies, and she leaves their hometown in Michigan to drift between countries, finally landing in Venice, completely broke — until a mysterious man approaches her, offering to help.

A group of friends realize they have been living vicariously through one of their friend's travel stories for their entire lives.

A writer struggles to craft a story and begins to lose his own sanity when an idea finally comes to him.

In an East Ohio town, a middle-aged man checks into a hotel and explores the various characters, events and surroundings that define small town life.

Two American friends escape their vacation in Paris to the French countryside, enjoying a day of fresh air until a Russian waiter and an Austrian remind them of the horrors of war.

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 couple with a rocky marriage argues over fetching a newspaper, which becomes a catalyst for their impending divorce. When they unexpectedly reunite over a decade later, the former couple witnesses how their lives disparately transformed thanks to the fateful newspaper.