Betty Preisser, une jolie vieille femme divorcée de 24 ans, travaille comme secrétaire dans l'atmosphère dur du quartier du vêtement de Manhattan. Son patron bourreau de travail Jerry (Frederick Mars) se sent à sa propre mortalité. Il est surchargé de travail et solitaire. Il est veuf de 56 ans, mais toujours empêtré dans ses obligations familiales. Sa sœur aînée Bossy Evelyn a emménagé avec lui et il a une fille mariée et Lillian petits-enfants qui vivent à proximité.

Louise Harrington, une trentenaire divorcée, retrouve son petit ami mort vingt ans plus tôt en la personne d'un jeune étudiant.

A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.

A young doctor meets and falls in love with the older Joanna, who is on the board of directors at his hospital. The people around them, including their families, have a hard time accepting the age difference, and they must decide whether to call it quits or stick with each other.

When Mark goes to visit his cousin Toni in Austria for the summer, he develops a serious crush on Toni's pretty stepsister Clair and at the same time tries to fend off Toni's efforts to get him set up with prostitutes. As much as he likes Clair, Mark cannot bring himself to start a sexual relationship with her and ultimately goes to Clair's mother Katherine to vent his feelings. It is that meeting that ultimately sends Mark home more experienced than when he arrived.

A high school science teacher and her sixteen year old student, run away together and take refuge behind the doors of a murky motel room in rural Orca Park, Florida. When an unhinged private investigator shows up and starts asking questions, the lover's idyllic world plummets into a well of suspicion, jealousy and deceit.