In Long Beach, California, a religious Chinese immigrant finds a job caring for a teenage boy suffering from leukemia. By watching M*A*S*H and reading the Bible, they find solace in one another during the last months of his life.

A middle-aged married couple ventures out on a tour of astronomically significant sites in Europe as a devastating event looms on their horizon.

In Michigan, a young boy whose parents are going through a divorce spends his days fantasizing about his goldfish, Fish.

When he hears of his estranged childhood friend’s death, an American writer travels to Denmark to mourn with the woman that he and his friend fought over in their youth.