A man tries to understand the seemingly contradictory personality of a fellow American soldier.

A mother, upon helping a girl at a playground one day, contemplates the nature of her marriage and the daughter who came from it.

A middle-aged man grieving the recent death of his father visits the families of his ex-wife and his current lover. As he does, he is deeply grieved by the passage of time and how his life has changed so much in a matter of years.