Following a messy breakup, an MIT graduate and a PhD student at Indiana University separately talk about the problems in their former relationship in two spliced-together conversations, exploring conflicts surrounding language, intimacy, commitment, and intellectualism.

A woman considers her possible shortcomings when her boyfriend tells her that he doesn’t like some things about her. After a period of reflection, she acknowledges the futility of self-deprecation.

A young couple helplessly in love spend their last night together at a park before they begin college at different schools.

A man visits his girlfriend in the countryside and begins to realize that she loves someone else.

Sitting at a bar, a man reminisces about his past experiences with love and develops a philosophy for 'beautiful' relationships that relies on the inevitability of their ends.

A man meets his girlfriend’s mother. While at first she is cold to him, because of a secret his girlfriend won’t speak of, they grow close, begin to depend on each other.

After falling in love with another man, an insecure woman attempts to discuss her current marriage with her husband while they drink in a bar.

Afraid of judgment, two high school girls who have turned from friends to lovers debate whether or not to go to prom as a couple.

A three-years-married couple have lost the spark that once excited them, leading the wife to venture into tentative love affairs.

A privileged young woman from New England falls in love with a practical Midwesterner, but can their love withstand the grief of losing a child?