A gay man working in a luxury fashion store in Asia prepares for the upcoming arrival of the brand’s chief designer. If everything goes right, his desired career in fashion will be set.

Fi's desperate hope to have sex before the end of her Birthright trip goes embarrassingly unfulfilled.

When a mysterious businessman moves into the house next to his, a South African widow finds himself and his painter daughter embroiled in a political scandal.

A Portuguese girl in Hong-Kong finds her circumstances suddenly changed with the onset of the Sino-Japanese War, and struggles to find her way out of China despite the ubiquitous presence of the Japanese officers and spiteful former lovers.

On his sixth birthday, a young boy receives a surprise present that forever changes his perspective on life.

In a futuristic nightclub, an old friend offers a handsome teenage boy the chance to get a surgery that will free him from the inevitable withering of his beauty.

A sixteen-year-old girl in the American West experiences her sexual awakening under the veil of religion.

An unemployed writer receives a Christmas card from a woman he knew briefly three years ago - the unexpected overture triggers him into sending a torrent of letters filled with confessions of love and declarations of indifference.

In the late 20th century, a women riding a train from Boston to Chicago encounters a stranger who works as a phone psychic. While waiting for the train to keep moving after an unfortunate accident, he tells her a chilling prophecy.

A female professor at a contemporary university remembers an old conversation with a former teacher of hers, which prompts her to reconsider her job, solitude, and love of reading.