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

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

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

A young man is working at a hotel resort during quarantine-era Covid. When a quirky couple comes to stay, his service to them makes him reconsider why he’s making the lifestyle choices he is and what the point is of self-restraint.

In a small town, a teenage girl who suffers from sexual harassment and assault finds first love, escapes her abusive household, and begins to heal.

A writer summers with his mistress and part of her family. The group runs into one of his former students, and they all smoke together.

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.

Hoping to win the faith of the girl he wants to marry, the best diver in the world prepares to dive from a platform one hundred feet above the ground, but doubt and fear creep in before he jumps.

On his thirteenth birthday, a boy on the edge of puberty climbs the high dive at the public pool for the first time. At the top, he feels as if he can stop time and see the entire world laid out before him — but eventually he must jump.

A slice of grim parts of life