A young woman returns to live with her parents for the third time in her adult life and reflects on her relationships with men.

A successful musician tells her children about surviving a bully in college, then searches on the internet to find out his fate.

In a near future world, a famous computerized drama director is pushed beyond his artistic limits when a random science fiction writer asks him to adapt his novel for the digital stage—for the alluring incentive of real gold payment.

When a mortgage broker goes under in the 2008 housing crisis, he and his family move and attempt to start fresh, but he finds himself haunted by the past.

A depressed Indian woman trapped in a decades-long, passionless marriage recalls the one day when she truly loved her husband.

When a melancholic blues singer gets his big break, he discovers that his success as a musician is mutually exclusive with his happiness as a human being.

A privileged young woman from New England falls in love with a practical Midwesterner, but can their love withstand the grief of losing a child?

When a young aspiring writer takes residence with a Jewish couple, he is pressured into maintaining a façade about his potential for publishing.

As the end of the world approaches a wealthy artists’ community, a long-married couple stays with their friends and attends nihilistic, indulgent suicide parties.

A carpenter in the midwest struggles to connect with his son who wants to be a poet.