The residents of a small town get over-excited when their hockey team gets chosen to host a televised event.

A librarian fakes her death to escape her abusive marriage and start a new life elsewhere, but her husband manages to track her down.

Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O'Brien maintains a career as a journalist and poet. A writing assignment dealing with sex and the disabled piques Mark's curiosity, and he decides to investigate the possibility of experiencing sex himself. When his overtures toward a caregiver scare her away, he books an appointment with sex surrogate Cheryl Cohen-Greene to lose his virginity.