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A man tries to determine the cost of a passionate but brief love affair, and his calculations lead him to a solemn but hopeful realization.

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.

Following his breakup, a Japanese college student uses savings from his relationship as a means to quit his summer mowing job, but not without first helping a woman who asks, but doesn't appear to need, for her lawn to be mowed.

With elaborate descriptions of the body, a husband muses about his relationship with his delicate wife. Reflecting on their good and bad days, the husband oscillates between worrying about their future and feeling passionate love.

A man who unknowingly talks to himself wonders why a woman who is satisfied with her marriage is having an affair with him.

A woman travels to see her lover after 6-months of silence. Though she would wish to be in a committed relationship with him, she comes to realize it is not possible and lets him go.

A man fantasizes about courting his friend's wife, despite being married himself, with increasing desire.

An anxious young woman wondering why her love interest isn't calling her and agonizes over what would happen if she called him.

After kicking her husband out and changing the locks, a mother imagines he is still living with her, distant and uninterested in sex. Lying in bed, she conjures up old memories and imagines new ones, grappling with questions of selfhood, identity, womanhood, and motherhood. One night, her real husband returns, and she lets him back in.