A group of children in a family lives with their grandmother, but she is mean and abusive. The children soon become tired of her abuse and plot to kill her in various ways, though the task is complicated by logistics.

While she prepares for church one morning, an elderly woman reflects on her tumultuous relationship with her son-in-law, a Vietnam War veteran, and her daughter and granddaughters, who she couldn’t protect from his violence.

Over dinner, an observer reflects on mothers and their omnipresent prevalence in children’s lives.

A young Chinese-American girl deals with her delusional and manipulative grandmother when her grandmother visits from China.

As a pandemic sweeps across the nation, a grandmother and her family ration space and food as best they can, until the grandmother makes a discovery that could extend their food stores and repair her broken relationship with her granddaughter.

An elderly woman shelters her grand-niece from a violent boyfriend, causing her to confront her own deeply-held regrets about her daughter's death.

An elderly woman in a senior living community spends most of her time alone. As she waits for her daughters to visit, she quells her loneliness by having dinner with her neighbor.

Having just lost their mother, three siblings do their best to preserve her memory even as they deal with unsympathetic adults determined to force change into their lives.

In 1988 Germany, a teenaged girl likes to probe her uptight family members for the rich stories they carry from their past. When her aunt—the black sheep of the family—comes to stay with them, the girl is fascinated by her free-spirited persona and the family secrets she may hold.

A young woman returns home from college for the first time in years to attend to her dying grandmother, whose only wish is for some homemade flan. Along the way, the young woman is forced to confront her parents' flawed relationship and the neglectful environment in which she grew up.