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.

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

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.

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

While she prepares for church one morning, an elderly woman reflects on her tumultuous relationship with her son-in-law, a Vietnam War veteran, and her daughter and granddaughters, who she couldn’t protect from his violence.

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.

A young Chinese-American girl deals with her delusional and manipulative grandmother when her grandmother visits from China.

Four generations of one family gather for a picture and tensions rise between distant relatives.

A series of vignettes about various sons along a family tree.

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.