A mundane married couple vacations at a tropical resort, where the husband becomes increasingly curious about a strange mother and son duo.

Attempting to have fun for once, a teenage girl witnesses death at an oceanside beach party.

A girl going through puberty hopelessly tries to hold onto childhood during a day at the beach, but meddling mothers push her to grow up.

On the beaches of a remote British Caribbean Island, a mixed-race family enjoys a relaxing vacation. However, a simple conversation with a local white woman about the island soon evolves into one of introspection and racial discrimination.

A tourist from England complains about his boring trip to California but enjoys experiences around town facilitated by his zany friends.

A writer moves from Chicago to an Oregon beach town to improve her tempestuous relationship with her recovering addict boyfriend but finds their romance endangered more than ever — only this time, it's her fault.

After an obese older man discovers his wife is having an affair, he invites the lovers on a tense trip to the beach.

After ten years a man returns to the shore where he encounters a mysterious woman and becomes intertwined in a web of memories, family tension, and unexplainable occurences.

Two sisters play at the beach. The eldest thinks back on their parent's problems and tries to protect her younger sister.

In a series of commentaries on the human condition — life, truth, happiness, death — a spinster sister takes in her dead sister’s children; a man is entranced by the endless waves which roll and crash in the ocean; a carpenter wrestles with the burden of being everyone’s confidante; a dying railroad crossing watchman shares a simple but complex wisdom.