In a 20th century American town, a young man spies on a decisive duel between his neighbor and her son.

As a university professor acts as a sounding board for everyone else’s problems, her own stress mounts to a dangerous peak.

A deceased man’s friends and coworkers try to come up with the best way to mourn him and comfort his widow, even though it seems like she doesn’t need it.

When their son returns back from boarding school, his Viennese father and French mother argue over what’s best for their son, who feels hopelessly different from all of the American teenagers in New York City. Unexpectedly, the argument reaches a deadly conclusion.

The nephew of a deceased housekeeper goes around to different apartments of high society figures in New York City, asking the housekeeper’s past employers if they can spend some money for her funeral arrangements.

When a middle-aged man is visited by his wife’s two orthodox friends from Jerusalem, the husband finds his secular Jewish lifestyle in South Florida under attack. To clear the air between them, the two couples smoke weed.

When a near-death experience prompts an elderly Jewish father to reconsider the facts of his own life, he searches for wisdom to impart upon his newly born grandson.