A complex web of human relationships is presented in the form of an algebraic expression.

If two sisters are born to a family, they will be competitive for life.

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

A brother raised in a lower-class family envies the esteemed and wealthy family in their Illinois town, leading him down a decade-long path in which he vies for the love of each of their daughters.

When a violent father receives a call from someone who claims to be his biological brother, he must re-evaluate what family means to him.

A wealthy family moves into a mansion on an island and raises several generations there. As the years pass, different family members show how things have both changed and also stayed the same within the house.

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.

A divorced woman reckons with losing the closeness that she took for granted in her marriage when her ex-husband and his new wife come to visit.

Four generations of one family gather for a picture and tensions rise between distant relatives.

After experiencing what should have been the most idyllic childhood, four siblings must learn how to assimilate back into the real world.