A writer moves from Chicago to an Oregon beach town to improve her tempestuous relationship with her recovering addict boyfriend but finds their romance endangered more than ever — only this time, it's her fault.

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

A woman falls in love with a fisherman she hates, but he hates and loves her as well. Endeavoring into a marriage that baffles all, the couple tries to make their toxic love work.

A young married woman meets an intense older woman on a cruise ship who regales her with the tale of an old affair and the lessons she learned from it.

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.

A neglected little girl conjures memories of her babysitter's tragic past. Just for the night, the two find an antidote to loss in each other.

Mourning her beloved father's death, a young girl takes a vow of silence to spite her cruel and adulterous mother. After her mother begins yet another affair, the girl comes up with a plan to expose her and do right by her father's memory.

A housekeeper watches as the young girl she helps take care of slips in and out of reality and looks for love in an unseen realm.

Upon returning to Paris after a decade-long hiatus wandering the French countryside and writing an epic, a poet encounters an enigmatic young woman who believes he is a god and wants to be his disciple,