A young heiress in the 1950s takes up a decades-long affair with a married architect, which seems like a safe venture until a mutual friend begins blackmailing them.

A writer enters his hotel room only to find a woman, with her dog, mistakenly sitting in it. For the rest of their stay at the hotel, they continue to encounter one another in strange yet familiar ways.

In the near future, America has been seized by a totalitarian regime. While hiding out from fascist gangs, a young, queer, Jewish woman in Kansas City writes notes in an encyclopedia of imaginary places, hoping the book will live on to tell her story.