A middle aged upper class woman and her family live in an upscale neighborhood. The family's laughter turns malicious when they cannot distinguish between what is comical and what is horrendous and increasingly find amusement at the expense of others.

After an assistant professor mistakes an endangered albatross for a duck and kills it, she reevaluates how she perceives others and how others perceive her as the assumptions she makes about others threaten her job and her marriage.

A man in the military visits the younger sister of his girlfriend—and sexual tension sparks between the two.

A newly engaged couple visits their married friends in the countryside, where they learn more about marriage, life, and love than they had ever hoped.