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A solitary bank clerk forms an unexpected friendship with a married woman and must decide how close to let her come.
After a motor race, a wealthy young Irishman joins his foreign friends for a night of celebration.
Two boys skip school in search of adventure and meet a stranger who unsettles their day.
A boy promises to bring a gift from a bazaar to the girl he adores, and waits for his chance to go.
Maria leaves the laundry for a Halloween visit with the family she helped raise.
After clashing with his boss, a Dublin clerk looks to an evening of drinking to restore his pride.
Eveline must decide whether to leave her family and sail away with the man she hopes to marry.
After a drunken fall, a salesman’s friends try to guide him back toward the church.
On the anniversary of Parnell’s death, campaign workers shelter from the rain and argue over Irish politics.
A boarding-house owner decides how to handle her daughter’s relationship with one of her lodgers.
Gabriel Conroy attends his aunts’ annual dance, where an evening of music and conversation unsettles his assumptions.
A boy waits for news of an ailing priest and struggles to understand the adults’ uneasy silences.
Two Dublin men arrange a meeting with a servant, and one spends the evening waiting for news.
A child is blamed when a treasured porcelain figure vanishes from a plantation home.
An artist wants to sketch a Cajun fisherman, but the man's daughter worries how strangers will portray him.
With her husband away at war, a lonely young wife grows close to a visiting neighbor.
A woman estranged from her son takes in a sick child after a family party.
A farmer goes to a country ball to escape indecision about marriage and meets a woman with plans of her own.
A New Orleans agent visits a Louisiana plantation and grows close to a woman already engaged to a local painter.
A woman is surprised by her attraction to the friend her husband has invited to stay.
With her brother sick and her father avoiding work, Lolotte takes a cotton delivery into her own hands.
A shopkeeper develops feelings for a married locksmith and struggles with what her priest calls sin.
With Christmas near, a plantation household searches in the rain for three missing turkeys.
Fifine takes her father's old fiddle to a plantation party, hoping it can help feed her family.
