When loving each other becomes inconvenient, a man separates from his wife of 20 years and struggles to realize that the end of marriage must also bring an end to the life they were supposed to live together.

A female pianist hesitantly enters into a new courtship with her violinist coworker, but she has doubts about whether or not her parents would approve.

In the early nineteenth century, a young woman who lives with her adoptive aunts thinks daily of her brother, from whom she was separated at birth.