Yuria runs a stylish cafe in central Tokyo with her boyfriend, Takeshi. The cafe is doing reasonably well, and Yuria is starting to think about marriage. However, Takeshi falls prey to a Pachislot scam, and got himself into debt.
The relationship between Maakoand her husband Michio, who runs a printing company, has become cold. Maako repeatedly visits the home of novelist Makoto and has an affair with him, and he frequently tells her to get a divorce, but she hesitates, thinking that Michio's financial situation means he can't even pay alimony.
Though aspiring comic book artist, Michio, has a beautiful lover by the name of Suzuko, he vows to not sleep with her until his work is officially published.
By uncovering a world thought only to exist in his imagination, Ethan brings the love of his life back from the dead in order to clear her name and expose the truth behind her apparent suicide.
A literary agent moves into a penthouse apartment. Soon after the move, he receives crime scene photographs that seem to have taken place in his new apartment.
Four lonely and disenfranchised urbanites in contemporary Mexico City: a preteen boy under tremendous emotional strain, the pretty cashier with whom he is infatuated, an enraged and embittered cabbie, and the estranged daughter of one of his fares.