A woman meticulously and obsessively reflects on the vanishing of her sister.

A man attends a classical music concert and uses it as a surrealistic form of escape as he copes with the news of his mother's death.

Chassidic Jew Joseph Gillis grapples with the artifice and hypocrisy of Harvard life, decrying the muddle of egoism and lunacy in the academic world even as he succumbs to it.

A young couple hitchhiking to a commune accept drugs from the trucker driving them. High and hallucinating, they must appease the unpredictable trucker while keeping him at a safe distance.

An employee writes a heartfelt letter to his former boss to argue that he was wrongfully fired. As he lays out his life story, his hidden cowardice and stubborn ambitions paint a different story.

A divorced mother watches her son unravel with shame while on a visit home from school as he reveals that an older, married woman has expressed sexual interest in him. The mother wavers between whether to intervene, or to sit back and let him handle the consequences of his actions.

After a gardening incident, a woman experiences a mid-life crisis.

In a small rural farm town, a middle-aged poet struggles with aging and finding meaning in his life.

A woman finds herself thoroughly infatuated with a Korean pop idol after attending his five-member boy band’s concert.

An academic who is dying from breast cancer and high on morphine reflects on her sense of failure in her lifelong pursuit of artistic brilliance. She decides her failing body has become her great work of art.