Thirteen-year-old Angelle gets into a car accident when her drunken father begs her to drive home in his stead. Later, she must take the witness stand in court and decide her family's future with her testimony.

After their mother leaves a preteen and her siblings, the preteen must navigate her emerging adolescence by herself in an orphanage.

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

A little girl acts out on purpose for the first time when she hacks her family's knives after her father told her not to.

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 child observes their father’s strange obsession with dressing up the pole in their front yard as they grow up.

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

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

A woman examines a period of time in her childhood spent with her sister and the babysitter's son, viewing it through the lens of an adult, and ponders how the experience might have shaped her as a person.

A father has an increasingly difficult time getting his son ready in the morning and notices that all the young kids around the neighborhood are acting strange. When his son becomes violent, the father must decide if it is really his son anymore.