As a man teaches his son to play the fiddle, a longtime feud comes back to haunt him.

A sergeant looks forward to leaving the harshness of the barracks and going home to his wife, but is unable to feel truly at home until the rain provides the illusion of distance from the outside world.

An older man living alone in a secluded cabin near Lake Michigan gets an unexpected visitor who reminds him of a past acquaintance from his sailing days.

An elderly woman spends twenty years of her life in paranoia and depression after the death of her husband, only to gain sudden, supreme clarity after a small incident at the end of her life.

An Irish writer working on deadline tells a story about a female marine in Afghanistan who is estranged from her family. As the story grows, the Irish writer is confronted with unwelcome regrets concerning his own difficult family life.