A man thinks about his relationship with his parents (especially his mother) as he watches them grow old. He then realizes that he is now old too.

If two sisters are born to a family, they will be competitive for life.

A schoolboard debates the merits of history—and how to remember it.

A college counselor watches anxiously as her teenage son applies to college without her help. As her son plans for his future, the counselor and her husband reflect on how quickly their lives have changed, seeking ways to steady themselves in the midst of middle age.

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.

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

In a dystopian world where people stay young forever, a brother and sister encounter an old man for the first time, and must decide whether or not to turn him in.

Throughout her life, a young woman from the future has gathered evidence about her ancestors to understand the way they lived before and during the era when society was reimagined.

In a 20th century American town, a young man spies on a decisive duel between his neighbor and her son.

A woman on a generation ship is offered the chance of immortality, and ultimately lives long enough to become part of subsequent 'waves' of human evolution - from man, to immortal, to machine, to pure energy - over countless millennia.