Deanna Reynolds and Angela Perkins are the reigning queens of afternoon talk shows. Once friends, their off-screen competition has more at stake than ratings.

Thomas Chippering is obsessed with getting his ex-wife back, but now that she is remarried, it isn't going to be as simple, so he has to find a way to sabotage her new relationship.

Mr. Joyboy, an embalmer, and Aimee Thanatogenos, crematorium cosmetician, find their romance complicated by the appearance of a young English poet.

Perdita Halley, a young woman who has turned down the proposal of Alexander von Reisden, fearing marriage would impede her music career, instead begins a passionate, clandestine affair with him in Paris in 1910, until an American acquaintance arrives and turns gossip into scandal.

Security expert Delaney Wescott is hired to protect movie star Lucas Wayne after he is attacked by a former lover, but the job turns out to be more complicated than she had imagined and she finds herself struggling to keep Lucas safe while trying to manage her own, suddenly complicated affairs.

A former English school mistress masquerades as the mistress of an infamous Earl in order to stop a blackmailer.

An accident on the campus of Sowerwine University changes the life of student Kissy Mellors who becomes involved with James Houston, a drunken pre-med student who caused the fatal collision Kissy witnessed, Mike Burke, a policeman who arrived at the scene of the crash, and Junior Clootie, a hockey star with whom Kissy begins an ill-fated affair.

A schoolboy playing truant bumps into his revered father coming out of a cinema with a woman.

Six years after their divorce, artist Jack McGill is called to his ex-wife's hospital bed. While maintaining a bedside vigil, Jack gets to know his ex-wife better through their daughters, her friends, and her art. He realizes what matters most in life are friends and family.