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

An overprotective mother attempts to get her teenage daughter to tell her why she is so upset. In an erratic and panicked conversation, the daughter reveals an unimaginable problem they must tackle together.

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.

A woman narrates the experience of sending her young daughter off every weekend to stay with her ex-husband and his boyfriend- until things change.

When a young woman in a contemporary American city witnesses her father cheating on her mother, her entire world crashes down around her.

A Black teenage mother wants to visit her daughter's father, but she struggles to get her family to help watch the baby at home.

A mother sorrowfully recounts her daughter’s first love and its destructive effects.

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 woman with minimal relationship experience deals with the aftermath of her choice between her first love and her sick father.

After a mother has an affair with her daughter's best friend's father, her daughter disappears and is substituted by another, almost-right version. Eventually, as the daughter starts changing more and more rapidly, the mother loses her daughter for good.