In the 1930s, a young American girl and an Englishwoman board a bus to Biarritz, France. On the trip, the woman attempts to indoctrinate the young girl about living a life of luxury.

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.

After struggling to appeal to their state governor, a dysfunctional family anxiously awaits the public execution of a relative. As they wait at home new of the execution, tensions and strife erupt in a dispute over the relative's innocence.

A self-willed young girl embarks on a train ride to a coastal town for a day, encountering eccentric people along the way.

Two boys begrudgingly spend an afternoon at a park, where their bold and embarrassing attempt to flirt with two girls leads to a troubling miscommunication.

A boy and girl in the former region of Eastern Prussia spend their final evening together before the girl and her family leave for the city. Throughout the evening, the boy wrestles with his suppressed sexual desires, his poverty, and his dread for the girl's uncertain future.

A father attempts to bond with his thirteen-year-old son, who recently came out to him, on a Florida spa trip. When the boy is heckled at a restaurant, the father struggles against succumbing to violent urges.

An elderly storeowner's quiet life is interrupted by a visit from a poor young man looking to sell a valuable item, which he claims has the power to bring happiness in desperate times.