After a woman reads that her friend and fellow nun has died, she thinks back to how they became friends and decides to make the journey back to their convent to pay her respects.

A man and his wife visit their daughter and her newborn at a cottage in a tropical forrest. Though the daughter never told them she was pregnant, the parents vow to take care of their grandchild when illness strikes their family.

A writer and his student are implicated in a rumor.

A group of boys skip school to pay their respects to their dead teacher at a mitzvah in Coney Island as they try to figure out the truth about souls after death.

On his way to use the healing spring to cure his pneumonia, a man meets a freedman who tells his story of escaping slavery and helps the man reimagine his relationship with his long-lost father.

A man, uprooting from his life in San Fransisco, takes on a rider on his long drive towards Denver, but finds they don't get along.

As a daughter prepares a meal for her divorced mother on her wedding anniversary, the mother reckons with how much her family has changed.

While visiting a Jewish colony in Argentina, a man gives a lecture as part of an effort to revive Yiddish culture in the settlement. Afterward, he hears from locals the unexpectedly unrighteous history of life in the colony.

A solider who cope with his crippling traumatic stress by getting drunk, finally decides to work through his past with an Air Force psychiatrist.

A Korean War vet purchases a plot of land and spends the next decade toiling to make it more livable for his frigid wife, but she continues to push him to make changes.