A teenage girl is diagnosed with a rare disease that physically compels her to move to a city and protect it as her memory and mark on the world slowly fade away. In the city, she finds a ghost of temptation from her past that she may not be strong enough to resist.

On a cold winter's day, a doctor travels to the home of a deathly sick man who claims that his illness is actually a curse his wife cast on him.

A blind American biologist living in Kenya collects shells from which a malaria-curing venom can seemingly be extracted. People from all over the world begin to visit his isolated home in search of the miraculous remedy.

When a man living in New York in the 1980s contracts HIV/AIDS, his friends constantly visit him in the hospital, leading to tears, drama, and questions of mortality and survival.