One night while visiting his mother, a man contends with the nature of faith and family.

In this metafiction, the many lives of an unnamed man are scrutinized as he passes through millennia.

Later in life, a man recalls a man in a pinstripe suit from his synagogue whom he, as a boy, seemed to have seen everywhere.

A young priest comes down with a debilitating illness when another pastor is sent to join his parish.

In discussing the altercations witnessed over the course of the day, Stephen Elwin and his family grapple with question of whether the downtrodden and those burdened by prejudice are nonetheless responsible for their own breeding and behavior. Elwin’s earnest and idealistic daughter Margaret valiantly defends their maid, who happens to be Black and also named Margaret, until she witnesses 'the other Margaret' breaking a piece of artwork.

A middle-aged man watches his vulnerable older sister slip into the clutches of a religious cult.

An Orthodox Jewish man and his son share a fig tree with their neighbors, several Roman Catholic nuns, and the fig harvest creates an uneasy intimacy between the two houses.

A writer uses his relationship with a mysterious woman as inspiration for his magical realism story. But, things go awry when he begins to question their compatibility.

A wife leaves her husband in order to ensure his ultimate salvation after they are rejected from the Christian church for their polygamist marriage.

An American couple in Mexico sees a man on the street who looks like Jesus. His struggles, however, are far more earthly, and despite their best efforts at charity, the couple is forced to realize that some things are out of their hands.