The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking away, the child lapses into a coma. While at the hospital, the boy's grandfather tells his son, Howard, about his past affairs. Meanwhile, a baker start...

Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.

The intersecting stories of twenty-four characters—from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitress— connect to the music business in Nashville, Tennessee.