Haunted by the ghost of his aunt's unfaithful husband, a university professor in California watches two married students that he is fond of go through a divorce.

A middle-aged writer finds a suicide note and a copperhead in his garden, beginning a series of linked events that cause him to question reality and prompt his doctor to send him to Florida for rest and rehabilitation.

A desperate man in the Air Force reserve in the 1960s struggles with his belief in fighting for the US during the Vietnam War but fears that objecting may lead to his imprisonment.

A young Black aspiring writer takes a job as a janitor in a building near Harvard Square where he befriends his retired predecessor and gains a new perspective on life.

When a young boy and his family move to an Indigenous village in Washington in the 1960s, they learn about a local mystic woman who tries to battle the sea but is no match for the tsunami that threatens to destroy everything.

A middle-aged woman living in the suburbs reflects on three moments in her life that have made her question her understanding of love and sexuality — meeting an expectation-defying girl in her youth, attending a bodybuilding competition with her family, and watching her hairdresser transform into a different person.

A teenager at a boarding school in Geneva, Switzerland writes letters to his divorced parents. After he realizes only his father might be the only one to reply to him, he lies to meet his father's high expectations of his son being a smart, athletic, budget-conscious young man.

After getting hired by a family in the New England suburbs, a young nanny tells the children scary folktales. When the boy begins to have night terrors and the boy's father falls gravely ill, she suspects that it is more than mere ghost stories that haunt the family.

A middle-aged mother describes the scenes of the beach to her blind son. After he becomes enraptured by his mother's story of a romance unfolding between a lifeguard and a young woman, he realizes he may not be satisfied with his own situation.

On a train ride to a metallurgical conference in Chicago, a consultant tries to avoid the debate between pure and applied sciences, but he cannot avoid it when he gets cornered in the washroom by two professors and an undecided bright new recruit.