A young Black girl confronts her overbearing mother's poverty and her lack of a father when she is coerced into attending a program intended to make her a "professional" member of society who can break the cycle of poverty.

Two elderly women, one a white woman and the other her former slave, spend their time sewing and reflecting on their lives together.

In 1930s Boston, a ten-year-old Black girl looks after a relative's baby, and grows attached to the child. When the baby contracts an unknown illness, the girl learns the realities of life and death.

After an elderly Black woman suddenly falls ill, her three half-daughters reunite in their old home in Alabama to be with her.

An African American mother prepares dinner with her shy daughter as they wait for her other daughter, an educated graduate trying to embrace her African roots, to arrive. In a tense reunion, the educated daughter's newfound identity and ideals clash with the family's established lifestyle.

When a mixed-race Black woman attends her family reunion in North Carolina, she is unsure how to reveal to her family that her father has died and left her all his land.

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.

A Black, southern house servant with internalized racism, joins her mistress on a visit to another region, where she observes Black people acting with something she abhors: autonomy.

A Black teenage mother wants to visit her daughter's father, but she struggles to get her family to help watch the baby at home.

A gay Black woman living in New York City meets her trans teenage daughter for the first time, years after she gave her up for adoption. The meeting brings back dark and painful memories of abuse and manipulation, caused by her daughter's father.