Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone: (official Video)

Each storyline portrays a relationship on the verge of being destroyed by external circumstances:

A teenage couple is torn apart by the girl's controlling mother. After catching them together in a park, the mother locks the girl in her room, where she cries over digital photos of her boyfriend. The Video Ending Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone (Official Video)

A young pregnant woman says goodbye to her husband as he leaves to fight in a war. She spends her days distraught, watching news of war casualties and waiting for any word from him. Each storyline portrays a relationship on the verge

The visits his wife's grave and raises a glass in a final toast to her memory. She spends her days distraught, watching news of

The returns to the park where she and her boyfriend were caught, where they have carved their initials, "A + D," into a tree.

In the video’s climax, the metaphorical walls of their isolation collapse as the vignettes break into daylight: