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

On Mother's Day, a group of mother-less women go to a pub to enjoy each other's company. One of them is pregnant, and another is planning to adopt. A woman contemplates her pregnancy at a dinner with her friends on Mother's Day. All the women's mothers have passed away.

A writer reflects on his mother’s incredible strength, which he depicts in a short story. However, his mother does not approve of the piece as he had hoped, and he soon makes an important discovery.

A woman's complicated relationship to her mother is captured in three vignettes: one from directly after her death, one from when she is still alive, and one from years after she is gone.

A young mother mourns the death of her firstborn child, a son, three days after his birth and falls into a bout of depression.

A mother, upon helping a girl at a playground one day, contemplates the nature of her marriage and the daughter who came from it.

A Palestinian woman searches for a way to break a cycle of patriarchal expectations and her own sense of malaise to find her own path in life.

After a tumultuous and difficult upbringing, a woman contemplates whether or not she should give up her newborn child for adoption.

A mother in Greece is grieving the death of one of her sons, which sends her to request more children from the city council. Granting her three sons to care for, she sets about transforming them from boys to men, employing incest at times.

A single mother living in the Bay Area is attempting to successfully raise three children, but finds trouble optimizing both their freedom and their safety.