When her husband's heart condition lands him in the hospital, an elderly woman living in Florida reevaluates the formative events of her life.

A woman in Ireland finally gets to be with her long-lost love, but only after he is tragically made a widower when his previous wife passes from an illness, leading the new wife to compare herself to the perfect, kind, dead one.

A graduate student at Columbia begins working as a research assistant to an eccentric older man, later discovering that they are looking into the life of a girl who was murdered.

A disgruntled writer returns to his small suburban town for what will likely be his last time seeing his ill father.