A mother must reconcile with her growing dislike for the man her teenage son is becoming. A divorced woman confronts her diminished sense of life's possibilities, while her colleague contemplates an affair. A location scout for a film studio falls in love with a young Mexican girl who is more in love with the idea of stardom than with him. A jilted wife contemplates the woman her film-star husband had replaced her with. And a son must overcome his competitive feelings towards his ageing, but still handsome, father. Altogether, these thrumming stories explore the passionate and compassionate impulses inherent in every human life.