A worker ruminates on the terrifying power of flight as he loads bags. Three passengers board and discover they’re sitting beside each other. During the pre-departure safety demonstration, a flight attendant longs for an escape from her mundane life and job. The three passengers think of their own isolation and lo...
Winston Smith helps Julia after she trips. This seemingly mundane interaction upends Smith’s world when he reads the note Julia slips into his hand.
A playful duet between romantic partners that offers a comedic take on a sinister secret.
A man and woman meet for the first time on a summer's evening.
The interior of a thumping, vibrating gay nightclub. A middle-aged gentleman sips his drink and turns to watch the dancers on the dance floor. Under the disco ball a young man, stripped to the waist, is dancing with abandon. The young man approaches and establishes immediate physical contact, which is uncomfortable. The older man needs more p...
An intimate encounter between two gay men.
Two male lovers come to terms with the fact that one of them is dying of AIDS.
Calliope and the Muses lead Eurydice C into her subconscious, to the memory of her first love.
In memory, Eurydice C's painter lover pushes her to allow him to paint her and make love to her, even though she is reluctant.
Eurydice C remembers different versions of her lover in an Arioso, Bourrée, and Passacaglia. She questions what might have been, before Calliope calls her back to the present.
Eurydice C is shown her Elysium with Orpheus in the garden - she is not sure she wants him there, but it fades before she can decide. The CEO brings her back to reality and closes the presentation.
Jeremiah, who is in love with Lily, reveals that he is the illegitimate son of former mill owner, Skinner. He enlists Freddy's help with a scheme.
Henri wonders how, after all this time, it is possible that Lily doesn't reciprocate her feelings of love.
George has a proposal for Lily. Henri has a confession. The Great Recorder Smackdown happens, and Lily is caught in the crossfire. Lily sends them all away without answering.
The Vagabond Theatrical Troupe presents! Jeremiah gives George an ultimatum but has to prove himself first in more ways than one, and all is wrapped up in the finest paper package.
A famous blues singer is warming up in her dressing room before the show. Her partner, Jack, enters and a fight begins.
An entire relationship in microcosm, from first meeting to last sunset together. This piece uses a couple’s dancing together as a metaphor for their time passing.
An ill and delirious Peary reminisces about his polar days; his wife remembers their early love.
First meeting of an adult son and his birth mother.
A couple fights as a woman leaves to pursue her dream.
Ex-lovers encounter each other in hotel lobby with their new partners and insult each other.
Filled with regret over his life, Manli sings of an abandoned love.
Lai Gwan compares her love for Nichol with the pull of the cool mountain water.
Lai Gwan compares her love for Nichol with the pull of the cool mountain water.
Lai Gwan compares her love for Nichol with the pull of the cool mountain water.
Lai Gwan compares her love for Nichol with the pull of the cool mountain water.
The Chinese workers decide to strike, led by Lai Gwan, after another death with no proper funeral. The strike is put down and Nichol stops Lai Gwan from being hung by Manli. She discovers Manli is her father.
Lai Gwan dreams of the conflicting desires of her mother, father, Nichol and herself.
As Manli and Lai Gwan argue about their situation, Lai Gwan tells of Ama's death, which crushes Manli. He decides to set the next explosive charge himself. Nichol and Lai Gwan recognise their love and follow Manli into the tunnel.
In the explosion rubble, Lai Gwan and Nichol declare their love depsite Ama's warnings. Nichol dies as the workers rescue Lai Gwan and Manli, who declares his renewed love for his daughter.
Manli and Lai Gwan decided to make a life together in Canada. As they collect and bury the bones of Chinese workers they remember all the dead, including Ama and Nichol.
Comparing herself to Samson, Jackie and her husband have a tangled night of love one rainy night.
Two travellers trying to communicate in English- which neither of them speaks well- find they are attracted to each other.
Two lovers discuss what love is.
Paris professes his love to Helen.
M'dea and Jason commit to loving each other and helping each other recover from the war and memories that haunt them.
The President invites Jason to be his running mate, and begins to remake him. This process sidelines M'dea and Chase. Dahlia and Jason are attracted to one other.
The party is about to announce Jason's candidacy. Jason and Dahlia dance together, oblivious to all the others. Enraged, M'dea smashes a glass wall, showering fragments over the party guests.
Jason and Dahlia are getting married. The citizens gossip.
The President threatens M'dea with prison or the loss of her son if she doesn't do as he wants. He warns her not to cause trouble for Jason.
M'dea has a breakdown and brings Chase to the fountain at Jason and Dahlia's, where she sees the ghost of her mother. She is discovered by Jason and Dahlia, and a fight ensues.
Dahlia convinces Jason to send M'dea away.
M'dea tries once more to get Jason to stay with her, but he believes he will never forget his war crimes if she is in his life. M'dea eventually agrees to go back to her country.
On the eve of their departure, M'dea and Chase play a gruesome game imagining ways to kill Dahlia the demoness.
Just before the wedding, Jason discovers Dahlia and the President murdered.
On a solitary walk a Man gets buried by an avalanche; a Woman thinks his absence means he is cheating on her.
A couple is trying to come to terms with the loss of their daughter. They grieve, and fight with one another.
The couple continues to mourn.
Duet between the woman and a violin, symbolizing her daughter.
In a series of micro-vignettes, we witness a love affair from meeting to first date, falling in love to falling out of love, and into old age.
Julia remembers the love she felt for her son Paul when he was a baby.
In a letter, Jaan asks if Noor still loves her.
A couple argue: Keith is trying to interrupt Erica's rant.
At a bar, Erica laments the men she chooses. Jackie looks for a rich man- and a rich man walks into the bar.
Two couples on a resort patio watch and comment on each other.
A middle-aged couple's romantic night: the Man, reading poetry to the Woman, is distracted by the need to hunt down a mosquito in the room.