An old woman experiences several blackouts as she approaches death.

The wife of a poet documents her marriage of five years as it tumultuously unravels during one summer in Maine.

An afternoon at the park takes an unexpected turn for a mother and her son as the well-established families that they admire turn out to be unhappy people who secretly enjoy the misery of others. As the day progresses, the mother is surprised to learn that she and her son share many negative qualities with those families.

Humanity is gone, collectively vanished in an instant, leaving one single woman behind - or so she thinks. Then she meets the last man. Unfortunately, he's a jerk.

When an officer in the State Department is sent to work as a diplomat for the CIA, he must balance the fate of other nations and politicians with his own interests and career goals.

An encounter with a grieving ex-soldier forces a Women's Army Corps member to realize the army may have robbed her of her ability to see death as anything but a necessary sacrifice.

A reclusive woman in the Metropolitan Museum of Art sees a former acquaintance from a distance. She tries to avoid him, but fate brings them together again.

A woman navigates her new life and her relationship with her criminally insane husband, who killed her three children.

A somewhat estranged family grapples with the impending death of their mother.

A woman finally forms a relationship with her half-sister, but becomes concerned for her well-being; the half-sister and her husband each tell the woman a different story.