A wandering man comes across two food venders who hire him for the day and tell him about their lives.

An oboist is told that he is only good for his playing. The oboist is determined to prove that he is also a talented composer as well.

An Irish terrier finds himself in heaven surrounded by everything he had ever wanted before death, but cannot find fulfilment without the one thing he left behind in New York City.

A young sailor rents a room while waiting for his ship and befriends his neighbor—a peculiar middle-aged gentleman with a hobby for wood carving.

A man in jail who killed his sister because he was worried her baby would not be fully white is questioned by a visitor.