A young couple helplessly in love spend their last night together at a park before they begin college at different schools.

A group of people at a bar discuss their experiences with an eccentric and impulsive boy as they anticipate his arrival.

A young woman discusses with her mother her regret for marrying an older wealthy man who lives in their boarding house. The mother, tired of the family's financial struggles, attempts to motivate her daughter to start a better life with her new husband.

A woman's chronic illness stirs up long-suppressed conflict within her family. As she helplessly listens to her husband and brother-in-law argue about the best treatments, she wishes she could be there to defend her troubled husband.