In present-day New York City, a strained lawyer writes to a stranger, an eating disorder doctor, in hopes of confronting the man about an overheard phone conversation.

In a dystopian universe where roaming brains must purchase their bodies, a solitary female brain is forced to make a choice about her dream of the perfect human body when the unexpected happens.

When a young Australian woman meets an Indian immigrant at an electronica concert in Paris, a touching one-night stand allows the pair to bond over their isolation.

When a Chicago man decides to add Pet Milk to his coffee, the old-fashioned dairy product stirs up memories of his polka-loving grandmother and his beautiful college girlfriend.

A doting husband tends to his brain cancer addled-wife by reading Jane Austen to her. However, the purity of this activity is jeopardized when he attends a life-changing talk at his local book club.