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.

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.

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

In the far future on a cold and snowy planet, an aging woman seeks a successor to her role as Kunchen: a bearer of memory for her people across generations, a role in which one must live a long and lonely life punctuated by decade-long cryosleeps.

A man tries to understand the relationship between his aging mother and her African caretaker, attempting to evade his own prejudices in order to better comprehend their connection.

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

A college professor sets out to show his elderly mother the simple joys of life and ends up learning about happiness and logic from her instead.

A man reflects on the sacrifices, both big and small, that he has made throughout his life in order to act as a big brother despite being the younger sibling.

The daughter of a prominent psychoanalyst is forced to admit her father to a retirement home due to his declining mental state. Initially skeptical of the severity of his condition, she later experiences one of his episodes and must rethink her father's true condition.

A young girl in the 1920s spends her evenings talking to her building operator while her mother is at work. When her favorite operator is fired, she is forced to quickly learn lessons about trust and relationships.