A female novelist asks her friend for help with her story about a woman who has a reputation for her husbands dying during marriage. The friend offers a story idea that seems oddly similar to the author's life.

A young man reunites with his wife after she flies from Port-au-Prince to New York City, but seven years apart and numerous affairs have created distance between them.

In an austere farmstead on the distant planet O, two lovers must find a way to fool their fellow citizens and satisfy a complicated series of marriage rites so that their forbidden love may last forever.

A lovestruck journalist and a torn painter pull the threads of their affair in opposite directions: he desires something more permanent, while she feels indebted to her husband and sons.

A depressed Indian woman trapped in a decades-long, passionless marriage recalls the one day when she truly loved her husband.

On the train ride to their honeymoon, young newlyweds bicker over inconsequential issues that appear as though will never be resolved.

In the midst of his divorce, Carter, a man who seemingly struggles with impotence, realizes that he has a tendency to get married to chronically unfaithful women

A husband and wife have a bizarre conversation as they grapple with the reality of leaving each other.

A married woman in London starts an affair with another married man. Together they contemplate her history and the murder that drove a wedge between her and her husband years ago.

With the final wish of his bedridden grandmother being for him to marry a woman of his parents' choosing, a Chinese man finds himself entering an arranged marriage—despite already having a wife.