Mitsuhiko and Mariko are intertwined, Mitsuhiko repeatedly touching his much younger wife trying to please her. However, when things go further, Mitsuhiko just can't get hard. Mariko tells her husband, "Let's take it slow and get better". Later, Mitsuhiko suggests hiring a housekeeper to help his younger wife. Hitomi is now on her way to the Miyamoto house for an interview...
In a backwoods cabin, a boy called Little Man lives with his dad (a trapper), his older sister Missy, and his younger sister Kid, who is feral, spends most of her time under the table, and can imitate the sound of any animal.
Jamie is a makeup artist for a local bikini contest on the beautiful South Beach of Miami. Her life appears to be falling apart when her boyfriend leaves her in a jealous rage.
A technical problem aboard a transatlantic flight forces a plane to land in Porto Santo, the small island of Madeira's archipelago where, according to a legend, Christopher Columbus the 15th century navigator, lived for a while and entertained a sexual relationship with a widow and her nubile daughter.
Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of England's most important World War I poets are sent, along with other traumatized combatants, to a rest home in order to treat their emotional troubles, caused by the psychological fatigue that suffer the soldiers fighting in the no man's land.