A modern day hermit spends her time listening to the secrets of the two women just behind the walls of either side of her apartment, connecting with them in a way they will never realize.

Two little poor kids, who work selling chewing gum in the streets, must face the true nature of the horror surrounding them.

An encounter with a city girl broadens a country guy's horizons.

A last laugh tale of two old friends, their teeth and a fishing trip that leaves them lost for words.

A man's search for his wife leads him on a strange and unsettling journey. A story of lost love and parallel lives, of those that have disappeared and the ones who must find them.

When Geraldine Bretherick and her 5-year-old daughter Lucy are found dead in the bathroom of their luxury home, the case divides new DS Charlie Zailer and her DC Simon Waterhouse. Is it a murder-suicide or something even more sinister, and how watertight is the alibi of the apparently distraught husband Mark? Meanwhile, when Sally Thorne, a young working mother with a husband and two small children hears of the deaths, she is deeply shocked. Months before she’d met a man called Mark Bretherick at a hotel and they had a brief but passionate affair. Now, against the advice of her best friend, Esther, Sally feels the need to get in touch with Mark again to offer her sympathy.

Davina and her husband Al try to revamp their lives as they struggle with the uncertainties of middle age.

Featuring two short stories, the first is about two manga writers/artists with a ten year age difference, Seiji Yamada and Sono Hanasaki and their intimate love life and problems. The second story is about the strange incidents that happen to pet-sitter Ueno when he goes to take care of a pet rabbit named Aki, who he finds out is actually a human man.

Follow a man as he goes to Sensitivity Training.

Marina finds herself on the previous days of her last piano concert that will change her life forever, continuing her studies in Germany, far away from her actual life. However, what nobody sees, blinded by the scholarship, is that the preassure is killing her and that it will drive her where to what a 17-year-old shouldn’t go.