Dora Willis (as Margerie Bond)
Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking away, the child lapses into a coma. While at the hospital, the boy's grandfather tells his son, Howard, about his past affairs. Meanwhile, a baker starts harassing the family when they fail to pick up the boy's birthday cake.
Witness
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
Cousin
Several lost-soul night-owls, including a nightclub owner, a talkback radio relationships counseller, and an itinerant stranger have encounters that expose their contradictions and anxieties about love and acceptance.
Judy Hiatt
A retired New York cop on vacation in America's West is drawn into a sheriff's investigation of a mysterious series of cattle killings.
Health is set at a health food convention at a Florida luxury hotel, where a powerful political organization is deciding on a new president.
Wilma
An uptight bachelor tries his luck with a computer dating service and gets matched up with his polar opposite.