A man and a woman, husband and wife, their parents, and their children are closely and intimately observed as these two films unfold, doubling each other and the marriage they look at, revealing a deep interdependence and fragility in love. While going into an operation a father and husband reflects on his children and his elderly fathers decay as he moves closer to death. While on vacation a young mother traveling with her extended family is overtaken by anxiety. Together the two stores fold into each other doubling and intertwining revealing the tentativeness of life and love.