A man in a failing marriage embarks on yet another love affair with a married woman, teaching him about his own sexual escapist tendencies.

A man's lonely life focused on the pursuit of reason and music leaves him questioning what more there may be in the lives of other people and of religion.

A young woman recounts three times in her life when she felt emotions of an unexplainable transcendent love: watching a ballet for the first time, making eye contact with an attractive librarian in high school, and listening to an old professor lecture during night classes at a university.

A man looks back on his father-in-law's life after he passes away, thinking of the many jobs he held and his military service.

A boy chafes under his mother’s constraints regarding the strange allure of his elusive neighbor, eventually falling prey to her supernatural charm.

When a young boy witnesses an odd event from the window of his small-town house, he begins to doubt the stability of the world around him.

A lustful, rhapsodic husband makes an unsuccessful attempt to seduce his distant wife and is surprised when the tables soon turn.

A husband signs up to have his wife's eyes inserted after her death, only to find that the world from her perspective is unbearable to him.

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

A young man invites a tourist to his favorite London café and recounts the strangest affair he’d ever had with a woman he picked up there; a woman who challenged and changed him. A young, beguiling man picks a tourist out of a group and invites him to see the real sites of London, not the tired and disappointing spectacles. He takes the tourist to the Café de Paris, an old but grand establishment with the promise of dancing and young ladies. The man admonishes his companion to loosen up, stay and drink, and while they wait for the evening to unfold the man begins a story.