When an old nurse and two children go out for a perfect afternoon walk, they are distraught to return home and find that something is out of place.

When his wife accuses him of something he can't remember, a man must confront the memories that still linger in his mind.

When a young woman can't seem to shake a strange man at a conference, she decides to get to know him a little better despite her first instincts.

Vignettes of a number of relationships, most of them troubled, are glimpsed through the descriptions of creatures in this bestiary of the imaginary.

Dreading a visit from an old business partner, a man drives around the Cape and attempts to put off the inevitable meeting, but finds trouble along the way.