After returning to her family’s decaying farm, an estranged writer confronts a dark secret that forces her to question her twin brother’s involvement in a string of murders - and her own capacity to kill.

Two seemingly separate narratives converge at a dinner party between two newly introduced couples in 1959 New England, revealing that the attendees know much more about one another than they first thought.

After finding a lost letter, a student seeks escape from 1960s academia by becoming pen-pals with a mysterious Brit; when they finally meet, he must decide what's more important, reality or fantasy.

While on a long-haul flight from Shanghai to New York, an American lawyer becomes seduced by the enchanting stories of a Chinese woman seated beside him; unleashing feelings he had tried to bury deep inside.