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When a mother's memory begins to deteriorate, her daughter catalogs her memories, both the ones she does and doesn't remember.

A chance encounter with an old ex-girlfriend causes a man to remember his past relationship with her and with his cousin, who immigrated from Korea to America to live with his family as a small child. Though she died in a motorcycle accident years ago, when his ex-girlfriend asks how she's doing he lies, creating the life she never had in his imagination.

When his wife accuses him of something he can't remember, a man must confront the memories that still linger in his mind.

After losing her mother to early-onset Alzheimers, a lonely, grieving girl in Canada joins a test group for an experimental Alzheimers drug. When the drug induces intense, vivid flashbacks to her childhood, she meets a girl within her memories who becomes her advocate and friend.

Four women–a retired dancer enacting an old dance, a grandmother preparing a birthday dinner for her family, her granddaughter participating in a genetics study, and a researcher quantifying the burden of old memories–all unite under the combined weight of their war-burdened pasts in the contemporary United States.

On the day of her mother's funeral, a young woman reminisces about the summers during her childhood spent with her family and friends at their lakeside cabin. As she considers her parents' nontraditional relationship, she also wonders about her own love life.

A man from New York recalls his most poignant memories, realizing they were all moments when others had needed something from him and he had let them down.

A son tells a series of stories, most of them about his father and stepfather. As the son describes a robbery that took place at his house in high school and his experiences with his father, a former Jehovah's Witness and current alcoholic, he begins to recall details from his childhood.

On the brink of death, an elderly man recounts his life to his great grandson, revealing that his mother's schizophrenic delusions of an otherworldly fantasy land were no delusions at all.

Caught up in memories of the past, a woman remembers a fateful summer dinner party at the start of World War II that left her family more divided than ever.