A woman working at her father's record store in Harlem in the late 1950s meets an aspiring saxophone player.

Andrea is a recently sober writer whose career has stalled since she published her debut novel several years ago. She strikes up an affair with Nick, a doctor-turned-writer who is hailed for his wartime memoir. At the same time, her sister Tara, a massage therapist dating an aging rock star, finds herself inexorably drawn to a newfound religious zeal and, particularly, to a politically engaged rabbi.

Aspiring British playwright "Jemima Kirke" and her husband work through inklings of a stale marriage.

A teenage boy's infatuation with a woman he sees on the bus further complicates his already tumultuous adolescence.

In the Middle Ages, a young servant fleeing from his master takes refuge at a convent full of emotionally unstable nuns. Introduced as a deaf mute man, he must fight to hold his cover as the nuns try to resist temptation.