In this modern-day fairy tale, a young female protagonist butts heads with her overly-protective and potentially magically-endowed mother. As she grows up and has children of her own, she begins to understand the lengths that mothers will go to protect their daughters and younger selves.

A young girl works to impress her highly critical parents and submits to a terrible fate as she struggles to meet their impossible standards.

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

The three wicked mothers of Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Snow White team up to regain their confidence and exact revenge on the daughters who betrayed them.

A Caribbean mother rants to her elementary-aged daughter about how to be a respectable girl. When the girls tries to reply, the mother continues her lecture.

After a local child goes missing, a mother watches her own child with caution and examines her relationship with the mother of the missing child.

In this alternate reality, a poor girl estranged from her mother seeks the blessing of a mysterious woman to bring her child to life. How far will she go to have her own baby?

A mother, upon helping a girl at a playground one day, contemplates the nature of her marriage and the daughter who came from it.

A young Jewish boy has a theological struggle with his stubborn Rabbi who refuses to answer his inquires about God.

When a mother takes her children to buy a puppy from another mother, she finds an unsettling household and a child chained like a dog in the backyard. Through their alternating narratives, both mothers reflect on what it means to love your children.