Three short stories come to the screen, each focused on a man and a woman. The first is set in the 1940s, the other two in the 1920s. In The Man in a Brooks Brothers Suit, a businessman of about 40 plies a younger Leftist women with liquor aboard a train. They spend the night together, and he decides he's in love with her. She plays along. In Dusk Before Fireworks, Kit, a youthful flapper, arrives at Hoby's classy flat intent on an evening of passion. A constantly ringing telephone interrupts each embrace. In Hills Like White Elephants, a couple traveling in Spain discuss her pregnancy: he wants things to stay as they are, she sees that notion as a fiction.