Two Chicago architects work on a memorial for a bombing in St. Louis as their marriage falls apart.

A chance encounter with an old ex-girlfriend causes a man to remember his past relationship with her and with his cousin, who immigrated from Korea to America to live with his family as a small child. Though she died in a motorcycle accident years ago, when his ex-girlfriend asks how she's doing he lies, creating the life she never had in his imagination.

After a hospital nurse who is also a church sister has an argument with an atheist patient that nearly gets her fired from her job, she surprisingly convinces him to come to her church.

After their only child dies during his gap year abroad, a woman reflects on her relationship with her husband and comes to understand that they deal with fear and grief in different ways.

Eight orphaned boys in Caracas, Venezuela band together and do their best to survive. When the youngest gets sick, a confrontation with a police officer becomes a matter of life and death.

A schoolmarm attempts to teach a group of men about justice, time, and irony in a repurposed saloon after they vote to have her hung for her disciplinarian ways.

A housekeeper watches as the young girl she helps take care of slips in and out of reality and looks for love in an unseen realm.

After a drunk college boy falls off a balcony, a slew of characters--a groundskeeper, another student, a chaplain, and an RA--relate to his death in different ways. Their stories are sidelined for the core matter: that a boy died.

A woman grows obsessed with a single book from the time she is a young adult to her death in old age, as the book's meaning changes for her over time.

A Black man escapes prison and hides on an island off the coast of South Carolina, becoming entangled in a game of deadly cat-and-mouse with a white hunter.