As a Chinese-American widower and professor of philosophy contemplates the life he has provided his two daughters, he recalls a traumatic memory from his youth as a delivery boy for a Chinese restaurant, riding through the dangerous streets of New York City.

A teenage boy searches a bookstore for the perfect gay romance novel, learning an important lesson about literary representation.

One woman’s affair leads to a lifelong revelation.

A woman tries to understand the space-time continuum and his love.

A man reflects on his countless journeys on Greyhounds—and the woman he hoped to see at his destinations.