Walking around town, a man acts as a good samaritan, offering money and assistance to anyone he passes by. He seems to be genuinely kind-hearted until his conversation with his wife upon returning home suggests his compassion is only performative.

When an impoverished man shows up to a wealthy woman's door in dire need of help, she gives him ten dollars and tries to send him on his way. The man insists that he return the next day to thank her husband for the money, but she isn't quite sure if things are as they seem.

An overly sympathetic woman never allows herself room for hatred— even as her suffocating boss stalks and harasses her.

A man meets a frail homeless girl at a train station. The brief interaction leaves him questioning and doubting himself and the nature of compassion.

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

A man visits a woman he once had an affair with twenty years ago, in the hopes that he might rekindle their relationship. The woman asks her friends to join them for dinner, as they must help her judge the man's intentions.

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.

An unemployed writer receives a Christmas card from a woman he knew briefly three years ago - the unexpected overture triggers him into sending a torrent of letters filled with confessions of love and declarations of indifference.

A woman has dinner with her husband and stepchildren and is interrupted by a stranger at the door, which prompts her to reminiscence about her past—the houses, love, and drama.

A man passes by a stranger he considers to be the 100% perfect girl for him and when he fails to strike up a conversation he imagines an alternate reality where they had met before.