As the only member of his family who is not a genius, a teenage boy lives his normal life of fishing trips and work while realizing that he is content despite his different life.

Three brothers, abandoned by their parents, act out in different ways. When one of the brother's is injured, they must finally find some help from their parents — or maybe some other entity.

A wealthy family moves into a mansion on an island and raises several generations there. As the years pass, different family members show how things have both changed and also stayed the same within the house.

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.

A family house in New Jersey watches on as twin boys are born, grow up together, and eventually become two very different men.

In a futuristic Kenya, a couple desperate for a son receives the customary 'installation' from the government, but the boy they receive is not what they expected.

A married couple clashes over the husband’s unwillingness to work. Laziness and enterprise produce a surprising invention.

A young girl stays with a bizarre family that has magical powers. As strange things happen to the family members, the girl starts to believe that the family lineage will die out.

A middle-aged man faces a difficult decision; he can choose to use genetic alteration to have a say over the life of his unborn child, or leave the future up to chance. As he struggles to choose a path, he reconsiders his own past and the struggles he has faced.