介绍：洛杉矶的一家普通餐馆里，发生了一件混乱的枪击案案件的幸存者们，此后开始对这个世界产生怀疑，觉得到处都是危险所在。不管他们的亲友如何劝慰，他们都困于其中无法自拔。可真正能解救他们的，也只有他们自己。终于这些幸存者们醒悟过来，携手靠自己的力量，在这个混乱的世界中，努力生存下去。《飞行物》是一个关于遭遇灾难与获得希望的故事，非常有戏剧表现力，它强调了我们的生命是飞逝的，就像天空飞行的小鸟，就像飞行物。

介绍：身为公关经理的海伦（Gwyneth Paltrow 饰）却在某天早上遭遇了失业的打击，她满怀失落地走向地铁，命运就在滑动门的左右发生变化　　赶上地铁的海伦回到家发现男友的奸情，使得劳燕分飞。为了迎接新的生活，海伦改变了发型，在电梯间邂逅了富有魅力的男子詹姆斯（John Hannah 饰）。新的恋情悄然开始……　　错过地铁的海伦也错过了男友与情人欢愉的场面，他们的恋情仍在继续。男友小心周旋在两个女人之间，却难免有败露的一天……　　滑动门机械地一开一关，命运随之悄然改变。

介绍：Gwen grows up with her romantic mother constantly telling her the story of her courtship and marriage to her father. Nick grows up with an alcoholic father who can't hold a job and whose family, as a result, is forced to move all the time. The two are shaped by this - Gwen a romantic and Nick withdrawn, unsure of himself - as they watch the hugely popular sixties sitcom, One Big Happy Family. Years later, it is the star of that show, now a child actor gone bad with a history of detox and people always saying, I thought she was dead, Francesca Lanfield, who connects the two of them, after years of near-misses and almost encounters. Gwen is hired to ghost-write Francesca's autobiography, while Nick, becoming her lover, is the architect who is to design a building on Francesca's property. When Gwen decides to crusade to save Francesca's building, she writes letters to the newspaper which catches Nick's attention - and wins his heart.

介绍：米歇尔•法尔盖特（休•格兰特 饰）经营一间拍卖行，他是个温和的英国人，拍卖行的生意一向很好他感觉成家的时候到了，便向他最爱的女友吉娜（詹姆斯•凯恩 饰）结婚。可是吉娜对结婚一词十分抗拒，她不愿意跟米歇尔结婚。这样使米歇尔疑惑极了，他认为女友是十分爱自己的，为何不能从此一同生活呢？　　直到后来，他才明白了吉娜的苦心。原来吉娜的父亲是一名黑帮老大，深爱着米歇尔的吉娜不愿自己的丈夫被卷进复杂的黑帮环境中。就算米歇尔向吉娜保证自己不会牵涉进去那些麻烦当中。　　可是事情并不如人意，他还是因为这个黑帮岳父惹来了很多麻烦，甚至被警察调查。从此，米歇尔也莫名其妙的成为了黑道中人……

介绍：Upon moving into her husband's childhood home to help take care of his elderly relatives, Jean Copeland, an emotionally withdrawn wife and mother of two, becomes embroiled in an affair with a suicidal lover. Her husband, Gordon, is oblivious, too busy worrying that he's losing his most prized possession, his mind, after a run-in with an ex-girlfriend he doesn't remember. 19-year-old, Priscilla, is a fashionista desperate to become a reality TV star, while 9-year-old crossword fanatic, Otis, has fallen in love for the very first time. Otis (played by Noah schanpp) falls in love with Caterina (played by Caroline Mills) after, well, forever. With Gordon's father, Theodore, fading into dementia, and 95-year old matriarch, Vivian, desperately clinging to control of the house, the six family members, at five stages of life, distill the dreams, worries, and regrets, of contemporary America.