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

The impact of an absent father emerges in the gruesome stories of a young daughter as her alcoholic mother listens and reflects on the struggles of raising her alone.

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.

Paige is called by her anguished childhood friend Denise to come take her child as her life falls apart - a child who is Denise's biological duplicate.

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

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

The children in a family grow tired of hosting their middle-aged cousin, but his expulsion brings unexpected strife to the family.

A young boy grows up avoiding his abusive mother and idolizing two men in his life: his father and a boy in his class. But when both of his heroes betray him, he turns to his mother for comfort.

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 mother and her adult daughter act as the waitstaff in a beautiful home and mostly pass unnoticed by the inhabitants. However, when the daughter develops a fascination with an inattentive man who lives in the home, disappointment and devastation result when he moves away.