A suicidal woman lies in a bathtub. Her past life flashes by, her memories are often incoherent and confused.
A woman from London starts working for a family as a nanny and discovers that the mother thinks she has an imaginary child called Maggie.
A New York playwright is summoned to Ireland to bury his father (his "Da"). While at his boyhood home, he encounters his father's spirit and relives memories both pleasant and not.
The story's hero Richard has lost much of his spine and love of his life, due to cancer.
A young female escapes her past and absconds to England in search of a new life. She takes a job caring for a tetraplegic but the burden of the job stirs up her past. It seems the limits of caring are not always as clear as they should be.
