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.

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

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.

At a Blues Festival, a fourteen-year-old boy talks to his father for the first time but does not reveal who he is.

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

When a man's son visits with his new girlfriend, the father worries that she is only interested in the grand house and family money. The father knows he should not intervene in his son's relationship, but the more time he spends with them, the more he dislikes her and the more difficult it gets to stay quiet.

A stay-at-home dad with a wife who works in Manhattan attempts to find a sense of control by tenderly disciplining his young son after he puts himself in danger.

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.

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