“Later the Same Evening” comprises a series of vignettes, each intersecting only briefly with the others, each extrapolated from actual paintings by American Realist Edward Hopper. The story tracks eleven people as they prepare to attend the premiere of a new Broadway show, offering an imagined glimpse of the events that led them into their places in Hopper's images. After sharing a scene in which all are gathered under the theatre marquee to escape the rain, the characters disappear one by one into the night. Two of the characters see each other again in an automat, and though she declines his offer of a drink, she allows him to walk her to the train.