When a violent father receives a call from someone who claims to be his biological brother, he must re-evaluate what family means to him.

After a tumultuous and difficult upbringing, a woman contemplates whether or not she should give up her newborn child for adoption.

As she begins to feel that her boyfriend is trying to create reasons for her to leave him, a woman tries to understand his difficult past as a child in the American foster care system.

On an alien world, a colony of humans has evolved to reproduce with one mother and many fathers. After delaying for years, one young woman finally chooses three fathers for her baby, but her desire for freedom draws her into the orbit of the post-human anthropologists who have come from the stars to study this quaint biological mating ritual.

A couple adopts a troubled six year old child who takes a startling interest in one very precious item in their home.

When a man's son visits with his new girlfriend, the father worries that she is only interested in the grand house and family money. The father knows he should not intervene in his son's relationship, but the more time he spends with them, the more he dislikes her and the more difficult it gets to stay quiet.

A woman with minimal relationship experience deals with the aftermath of her choice between her first love and her sick father.

A woman narrates the experience of sending her young daughter off every weekend to stay with her ex-husband and his boyfriend- until things change.

After her son dies, a mother reckons with the grandson he left behind.

Though numerous social workers try to step in, a co-dependent mother and son bounce from city to city, in search of a place where they can be together at all times.