A man thinks about his relationship with his parents (especially his mother) as he watches them grow old. He then realizes that he is now old too.

A retired, middle-aged man lives alone after leaving his wife and daughters in England and moving to Vancouver. Amid the growing certainty of death and the absence of any strong relationships, he realizes he must break out of the vacuum within which he lives.

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

An old man becomes aware of the finality of his life, and that he couldn't find much meaning to it anymore.

A man reflects on his complicated summers with his father.

An elderly man realizes his troublesome son is the only thing keeping him going.

An elderly woman in a senior living community spends most of her time alone. As she waits for her daughters to visit, she quells her loneliness by having dinner with her neighbor.

A man tries to understand the relationship between his aging mother and her African caretaker, attempting to evade his own prejudices in order to better comprehend their connection.

A man thinks back on his life as he prepares for death and wonders if his existence was meaningful, or simply fleeting.

An elderly Russian man comes across a young American in a park and tells the young man about coming of age in Russia.