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

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

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

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

When a family reunion brings together siblings, they realize they are now more like strangers. At the end of the day, a shocking incident tests their bonds.

A Native American woman reminisces on the story her great-grandfather would tell about running away with her great-grandmother. The woman draws parallels between the story and her own first love.

On the day of her mother's funeral, a young woman reminisces about the summers during her childhood spent with her family and friends at their lakeside cabin. As she considers her parents' nontraditional relationship, she also wonders about her own love life.

As an old woman revisits her family's quintessentially American history, she finds a way to respect and love her parents, despite the scandals and tragedies they endured.

As they prepare to sell off their family’s house, two siblings reckon with the difficulty of their childhoods—and the tragedy of their third sibling.

When a violent father receives a call from someone who claims to be his biological brother, he must re-evaluate what family means to him.