A female caretaker visits a man confined to his house every week to bring him food and tell him stories, but when one of her tales is interrupted, he begins to worry about the future of their arrangement.

A girl at a British airbase is bad luck: after going out with her, pilots seem to always crash and die. When a famously successful pilot shows up, the girl is drawn to him. They both want to see if they can beat the curse.

On a bus trip to meet her new husband in Arkansas, a young woman struggles to emotionally bury her biggest secret: that her "younger brother" is actually her son.