A homosexual military sergeant, with no use for his money after his parent’s estrangement, attempts to support the destitute family of a soldier just shipped off to Iraq.

A sister remains a faithful friend to her brother as he navigates the strict parenting of their military father, spending his youth fighting in Vietnam, and his return home after the war as a changed man living apart from his family and forging his own path in life for the first time.

A series of vignettes about various sons along a family tree.

When a Navy trainee's girlfriend of a few months gets pregnant, he must decide what he wants out of life.

When all the able-bodied men of a small town in Oregon get sent to the war front in Iraq, two teenage boys are left behind. They vent their frustration, seek revenge on those who have wronged them, and ultimately grow up to be like their fathers, despite their fathers' absence.

During a Boy Scout camping trip, a father and son find some bonding time. The father particularly finds solace in the intimacy he feels towards his son during the increased interaction.

A boy rides along in his father's truck, but when he breaks his father's only rule—don't touch anything—by turning on the radio, he hears another trucker threatening the safety of his father.

During WWII, years after his parent's divorce, a college student and his brother visit their father and his new wife. However, the visit leaves him disappointed at what his father's life has become.

After being left behind by her husband and two sons due to her alleged "boringness," a woman must learn how to cope with her new life.

A thirteen year old boy's grandfather tells his harrowing wartime story once again--this time in the darkness of his closet.