In the far future, a human veteran adopts a war soldier, developing an unlikely friendship that helps each of them cope with the trauma of combat.

After being put in a nursing home by her daughter, an elderly woman feels her family slipping away from her until it is too late for reconciliation.

A lonely girl forms a friendship with a woman rejected by society; they spend an afternoon together, after which the girl is able to better understand the casual cruelty of the people around her.