When a Soviet state official attempts to coerce a celebrated poet into apologizing for a political joke he made, the official gets a taste of his own predatory medicine at the hand of the poet's vengeful wife.

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 a man receives a mysterious automated phone call from his reticent neighbor, he finds himself in the midst of a technologically adept murder mystery.

When a husband picks up a call he believes to have been made by a male suitor, he accuses his wife of having a lover.