Despite the misunderstandings of his cursed family, a transgender boy tries to connect with his roots.

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

In an attempt to impress his emotionally distant father, a boy ridicules his mother, who has loved him unconditionally even in his father's absence. Wracked with guilt, he yearns for her forgiveness - only to find that she does not hold it against him.

A father contemplates whether he should kiss his son on the lips when saying good night.

A Louisiana boy educated by God-fearing Catholics is taught to abstain from masturbation and rather think of it as self-harm. Instead, he sets out on a tumultuous relationship with his sexuality, and comes to question whether or not he truly agrees with the church's teachings about what is and is not sin.

At a mundane dinner party, adults dance the night away while two ten-year-olds hide and explore their bodies together.

Under the assumption that his minister father and God are the same person, a six-year-old boy decides to test his father's power.

A son tells a series of stories, most of them about his father and stepfather. As the son describes a robbery that took place at his house in high school and his experiences with his father, a former Jehovah's Witness and current alcoholic, he begins to recall details from his childhood.

Two boys become friends after one of them displays unflinching honesty in the face of a tyrannical teacher. Ultimately, their friendship is destroyed when the same honesty robs the second boy of some of his childhood ignorance.

At a Blues Festival, a fourteen-year-old boy talks to his father for the first time but does not reveal who he is.