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

One night while visiting his mother, a man contends with the nature of faith and family.

After yet another hurricane, a Puerto Rican family reflects how they hide their struggles from their Americanized relatives.

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

Just before an American college student is set to leave for the airport after visiting her extended family in Ethiopia, she realizes her suitcases are too heavy. A fight breaks out between her relatives about what items should travel with her at their behest, versus which ones deserve to be left behind.

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.

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.

A child observes their father’s strange obsession with dressing up the pole in their front yard as they grow up.

Despite his wife's pleas for him to behave at the annual family reunion, a man finds himself engaging in hand-to-hand combat with his brother-in-law after a few drinks.

An overprotective brother disapproves of his sister’s fiance despite his own inability to commit to a woman. Over time, he becomes less selfish and learns to accept others' wishes with less judgment.