On a cold December day, parents grieve for their son who was killed in a football game. A friend of their son helps them realize their son may have hid the feelings he was too afraid to show.

A teenager learns how to cope with the premature loss of his father. Through a newly developed relationship with his uncle, he discovers a new version of his father he wasn't privy to during his life.

In a distant land, a stillborn child roaming the Earth as a ghost bridges the gap between death and life.

A young boy tries to figure out why his father wakes up in the middle of the night to sit in their dark kitchen, alone with his thoughts.

In the 1990s, as a mother watches her thirty-three-year old son slowly die from AIDS, she grows closer to him than she ever has before.

The impact of an absent father emerges in the gruesome stories of a young daughter as her alcoholic mother listens and reflects on the struggles of raising her alone.

Raising a troubled eight-year-old boy, two parents seek psychiatric assistance to help him cope with his anger issues. When his mother stumbles across a hand-crafted coffin the boy made for his father, she realizes the assistance they will need far exceeds that of a psychiatrist.

A man reflects on his complicated summers with his father.

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

A son tells a series of stories, most of them about his father and stepfather. As the son describes a robbery that took place at his house in high school and his experiences with his father, a former Jehovah's Witness and current alcoholic, he begins to recall details from his childhood.