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

In an epistolary-like work, a father must choose between a job he loves and his relationship with his son.

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.

As a boy grows to adulthood in the years encompassing WWII, and his understanding of the world changes, so too does his perception of his schoolteacher father evolve from respectable teacher to embarrassing clown to free-spirited man.

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.

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.

After he gets divorced, a father finds renewed purpose through his role as a single parent and the precious time he spends with his children.

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.

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.

A father and son play an especially strategic and emotionally intense game of tennis that ends in both their losses, in one way or another.