A young couple helplessly in love spend their last night together at a park before they begin college at different schools.

An individual on a train watches the throngs of people commuting, including a young couple that has been severely affected by the Great Depression.

Plagued by an aggressive case of pneumonia and haunted by a dying neighbor, a sanatorium patient is advised to have his ribs resectioned, thus sending him into a panicked reflection on the inevitability of death.

An amateur painter attends his first art show, hoping to sell some of his work. He soon understands, however, that the path to success in art is not nearly as simple as he once perceived it to be.

A New Yorker attends a meeting for unemployed workers and the sleazy speakers leave him skeptical about his job prospects.