After he gets divorced, a father finds renewed purpose through his role as a single parent and the precious time he spends with his children.

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

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

When a teenage girl meets with her father to remind him of his late alimony payments, she feels disappointed by his unhelpful reaction.

A father has failed his son and daughter multiple times. However, on his death bed, the father is determined to have her daughter be married, despite the daughter's fiancé continually postponing the wedding.

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

When a man's son visits with his new girlfriend, the father worries that she is only interested in the grand house and family money. The father knows he should not intervene in his son's relationship, but the more time he spends with them, the more he dislikes her and the more difficult it gets to stay quiet.

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.

Having just lost their mother, three siblings do their best to preserve her memory even as they deal with unsympathetic adults determined to force change into their lives.

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