After losing her mother to early-onset Alzheimers, a lonely, grieving girl in Canada joins a test group for an experimental Alzheimers drug. When the drug induces intense, vivid flashbacks to her childhood, she meets a girl within her memories who becomes her advocate and friend.

As a woman slips in and out of sleep, her dreams become windows to moments in her life.

A young boy, who is still unaware of his future in which his mother dies and he becomes a miserable, unaccomplished middle-aged man, lives through an ever-so-slightly unusual day which would later become the one and only core memory he has of his mother.

A woman in her twenties struggles to recover the memories of what happened to her and her family at a young age.

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.

When a mother's memory begins to deteriorate, her daughter catalogs her memories, both the ones she does and doesn't remember.

A young man has been experiencing intense hallucinations for most of his life. When one of his nightmares begins to seem a little too real, he realizes there may be an explanation for these experiences, and it may have something to do with his mother's death.

A son takes his aging mother back on a visit to his childhood home. Though he expected the house to remain at least a little bit familiar, both his fromer home and his mother had changed considerably with the passing of time.

On the brink of death, an elderly man recounts his life to his great grandson, revealing that his mother's schizophrenic delusions of an otherworldly fantasy land were no delusions at all.

In San Francisco, a Chinese grandmother teaches her granddaughter how to pickle the memories she no longer wants to carry with her, much to her daughter’s chagrin.