In the far future, a selfless woman helps a wary man flee from a destroyed Earth to the world beyond the solar system.

A woman dealing with conflicting emotions resorts to deliberately putting herself in danger to learn to value the life she's been given - but these unorthodox methods leave her more desperate than ever.

A lonely man in his forties imagines a domestic life with a woman he briefly met who is interested in his furniture, but not his marriage proposal.

An accomplished but ineffectual columnist searches for fulfillment, until a death in the family causes him to question the family he took for granted.