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

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

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

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.

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

An elderly woman finally reaches out to her estranged nephews to settle the matter of her will, but her unexpected decision leaves them shocked.

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.

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.

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

Across two difficult decades, two siblings come together and drift apart.