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.

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.

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

A father tells his twenty-year-old son how he was married suddenly to his son's mother at a young age.

A man burdened to live in the past due to his memory condition seeks to avenge his wife by killing her murderer.

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.

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

A young boy, who is still unaware of his future in which his mother dies and he becomes a miserable, unaccomplished middle-aged man, lives through an ever-so-slightly unusual day which would later become the one and only core memory he has of his mother.

A writer struggles to craft a story and begins to lose his own sanity when an idea finally comes to him.

A mentally-ill, suicidal man writes letters to different people about prominent memories in his life from his birth onwards—some nostalgic, some thankful, some apologetic, and some confessional.