A grieving man embarks on a long-imagined affair in the months following his wife's unexpected death. Two old friends attempt to rediscover their lost bond on a trip to remote mountain hot springs. Trapped in a mall after hours, two teenagers push each other to new levels of honesty and sexual misconduct. In Jon Raymond's deft, nuanced stories, these and other characters experience the deep longings and sudden insights of life in a modern, middle-sized city - a world of rapidly changing neighborhoods, rising financial pressures, and chances encounters shaped by distant forces. Whether kids or carpenters, artists or drifters, all have arrived at a crossroads, seeking what they need to survive and finding what, if necessary, they are willing to live without. With poetic detail and a humane spirit, Livablity draws a somber, wryly observed portrait of America now.