An American visits an Israeli friend from his past who had recently emigrated to Maine and gotten remarried. They discuss the hostage situation in the Middle East and she reflects on where her loyalties lie.

A young South African man traveling through Africa befriends a group of people and stays with them, following them north to Kenya. He becomes romantically attached to one of the young Swiss men, despite their language barrier, and they begin a hot-and-cold relationship.

A first-generation Welsh man goes back to his father’s hometown for a funeral, where the neighbor’s son was crushed under his father’s toppled stone gate. Suddenly his father, who has lived morosely but peaceably in his decrepit cottage, finds the town has turned against him. A Welsh man’s father falls in disfavor with his hometown when the neighbor’s child is crushed under his toppled stone gate.