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

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 develops a risky love for her son's pediatrician, despite the fact that they are both married.

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

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

A bitter divorcee and distant father having an affair with a younger, married woman gets a call that his son has gotten into trouble at boarding school. He travels to the school, where the headmaster says his son, who beat up another student, must transfer. In a series of events that makes him increasingly bitter, he ends up making his son's girlfriend cry in a restaurant.

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

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 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.