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

During a Boy Scout camping trip, a father and son find some bonding time. The father particularly finds solace in the intimacy he feels towards his son during the increased interaction.

In a futuristic Kenya, a couple desperate for a son receives the customary 'installation' from the government, but the boy they receive is not what they expected.

In an attempt to impress his emotionally distant father, a boy ridicules his mother, who has loved him unconditionally even in his father's absence. Wracked with guilt, he yearns for her forgiveness - only to find that she does not hold it against him.

A father contemplates whether he should kiss his son on the lips when saying good night.

A man reflects on the sacrifices, both big and small, that he has made throughout his life in order to act as a big brother despite being the younger sibling.

After being left behind by her husband and two sons due to her alleged "boringness," a woman must learn how to cope with her new life.

A family finds out that their father was sent on a train from Florida to New York by himself when he was five years old, and one of the sons thinks this event explains his father's strict and grumpy demeanor in response to his children's playful antics.

In post-World War II Japan, a boy is raised by his frigid father without love and spends the rest of his life endlessly pursuing it.

A boy rides along in his father's truck, but when he breaks his father's only rule—don't touch anything—by turning on the radio, he hears another trucker threatening the safety of his father.