Multiple extramarital affairs come to a head years later, but the narrator circumvents them at the last moment.

A wounded soldier takes refuge in a cathedral and ponders his disillusionment with religion, which slowly wanes as he dies.

When a new woman catches his eye, an aging barber attempts to break out of his long cycle of failed relationships and accept her for who she is.

When a woman finds her purse stolen, she retraces the steps of her eventful day only to realize that the encounters, and her life as a whole, are empty and purposeless.

A man’s inflated ego and desire for luxury leads him on a whirlwind trip of cheating, scamming, and drinking across continents.

A writer dying of gangrene in the African savannah reflects on his past experiences and the stories he will never write as he converses with his wife.