Two childhood best friends have trouble reconciling the nature of their friendship—and the different worlds they now live in—after having grown up together.

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

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 woman tries to understand the space-time continuum and his love.

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

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 married man in New York City must try to get a female friend to reciprocate the love he has for her while helping her through her ongoing separation with her husband.

A boy wonders who his real friends are.

A man succumbs to shock as an important friend betrays him, despite the friend not being visible to the human eye.

Vignettes of a number of relationships, most of them troubled, are glimpsed through the descriptions of creatures in this bestiary of the imaginary.