After a drunk college boy falls off a balcony, a slew of characters--a groundskeeper, another student, a chaplain, and an RA--relate to his death in different ways. Their stories are sidelined for the core matter: that a boy died.

Determined his death is approaching, a man pays a last visit to both his wife's grave and his son's ghost and tries to say goodbye.

When Harold's wife dies, seemingly by malicious cause, he becomes the prime suspect. As the public defender investigates her death, he finds that she may have held secrets herself.

After her lover abandons her for someone else, a woman plummets to her death on a Monday night, only to return as a ghostly presence who finds none of her problems solved.

After two of a man's acquaintances die by suicide, he goes on a hunting trip and can't stop thinking about why they wanted to die.

Two people die of drug overdose and flu and never meet each other, never get married, and never live their seedy, disappointing lives.

A deceased man’s friends and coworkers try to come up with the best way to mourn him and comfort his widow, even though it seems like she doesn’t need it.

In the days after his wife dies, an older man must confront his newly solitary life, both the good and the bad.

Three months after the death of his wife, a man tries to convince himself that he has not truly suffered a loss, all the while missing his wife more than ever.

When a young girl in a contemporary northwestern American town dies, one of her neighbors and former friends rethinks her relationship with death.