Story #1: "Swinging," has as its source an 18th-century painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard set in a bucolic forest clearing, where a beautiful young woman soars on a swing while two men look on. In Stroman and Weidman's version, they are a servant and his master vying for the young lady's affection. The Rodgers & Hart song "My Heart Stood Still", as recorded by jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli, provides the aural bed for this sexy romp in the French countryside.

Story #2: "Did You Move?" takes place in 1954 in Queens, New York at an Italian restaurant. The heroine is a soft-spoken woman trapped in a loveless marriage, who tries to escape her verbally abusive husband through a series of romantic and comic fantasies. Imagining herself a prima ballerina, she dances with the headwaiter, the busboys and the restaurant's other customers to the grand melodies of Tchaikovsky, Grieg and Bizet.

Story #3: "Contact" is set in present-day New York, and is the story of Michael Wiley, a wildly successful advertising guy in his 40s who is wildly suicidal about his personal life. He is mysteriously drawn to an after-hours club in Manhattan's meat-packing district, where he tries to engage a beautiful young woman in a yellow dress who keeps appearing and then disappearing into the crowd of sinuous couples swing-dancing to the music of Benny Goodman, The Beach Boys, Robert Palmer, Dion, and The Squirrel Nut Zippers.