In San Francisco, a Chinese grandmother teaches her granddaughter how to pickle the memories she no longer wants to carry with her, much to her daughter’s chagrin.

An old woman experiences several blackouts as she approaches death.

After suffering a battlefield injury during World War I, an English soldier develops persistent amnesia, making him fearful of his own actions during the memory blackouts.

A young boy, who is still unaware of his future in which his mother dies and he becomes a miserable, unaccomplished middle-aged man, lives through an ever-so-slightly unusual day which would later become the one and only core memory he has of his mother.

Anxious ahead of an important lecture, a psychology professor blows up after finding a photo of his wife's ex-husband.

Fondly recalling memories at the motion picture theater, an old man blurs the lines between past and present.

An old woman takes a day trip through the Mexican town of La Luz. After one of her appointments is unexpectedly cancelled, she must find new ways to spend her day.

As an asteroid approaches to decimate Earth, a young female horticulturist remains behind to help catalogue plant species before impact. But after reflecting on her grief and connecting with another scientist, the young woman decides to remain on earth when the asteroid hits.

A man thinks back on his late father's thievery, and figures out how to mourn his death.

Upon the death of their tyrannical mistress, three old maids venture to the place she forbade them to go and reminisce about her life.