A mother reflects on her failures to improve the troubled upbringing of her first daughter, who she raised as a single parent during the Great Depression.

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

A mother struggles to come to terms with her son's mental illness, and begins to realize how poorly society treats people like him.

A young woman has a baby, but her traumatic past makes her doubt her capabilities of being a good mother.

A mother struggles to understand her autistic son as she grapples with her own self-doubt.

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

On Mother's Day, a group of mother-less women go to a pub to enjoy each other's company. One of them is pregnant, and another is planning to adopt. A woman contemplates her pregnancy at a dinner with her friends on Mother's Day. All the women's mothers have passed away.

A young mother mourns the death of her firstborn child, a son, three days after his birth and falls into a bout of depression.

As his father grows distant, a boy with a developmental disability and his pregnant, newly single mother struggle to make ends meet on their own. Amid their arduous, chaotic lives, his piano lessons become an unexpected solace.

A depressed old woman tries her best to care for a great-grandchild who unexpectedly enters her life, but he ignores all of her shows of affection and does not say a word back for months.