A boy and his best friend face a tidal wave in coastal Japan, but only the boy surfaces. The boy reflects as an old man, blaming himself for not helping his friend escape and wondering if the friend survived.

After ten years a man returns to the shore where he encounters a mysterious woman and becomes intertwined in a web of memories, family tension, and unexplainable occurences.

After monsters emerge from the ocean and begin attacking, a woman rifles through disjointed memories of the beginning of the apocalypse and her failed marriage.

When a paddle-boating excursion goes wrong, a family makes one final sweet memory to cling onto during the years of separation and sadness that follow.

In California, a young woman reflects on her relationship to her father while working on a novel. Through reading her father’s novel, she understands their relationship through his eyes.

In a dystopic future on Earth, as a woman comes home from vacation, she hears about a continent emerging from the sea as old ones sink, and returns to find her husband released from Rehabilitation Camp. He and his fellow researchers discover how to make a “sun tap” to channel the sun’s energy into power, but then he is again forced away by the government, into a hospital.

A somewhat estranged family grapples with the impending death of their mother.

In the near future, an energy crisis compels humanity to take advantage of the one source left untouched by industrialization: the past.

A progressive and bitter father going through a mid-life crisis goes on holiday to a water park with his wife and excitable son. He casually confronts racist and irritable guests while trying to figure out how to be a good dad.

A man reflects on the past week while an unexpected storm rages outside, and he compares the events that follow with the fall of the Roman Empire.