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A brother-in-law lives with a family, but his presence in the house slowly fades away.

A man reflects on the loneliness of his childhood home, where his family would fervently clean the house every Saturday for guests on Sunday who would never show.

A mother and her three children discuss what to do (in the hours after?) after the father leaves (and they aren't sure if he'll come back. something like that).

After he gets divorced, a father finds renewed purpose through his role as a single parent and the precious time he spends with his children.

In a small town in Minnesota, a man's ex-wife returns to him, homeless and in request for help, after abandoning him and their son more than a decade ago.

After yet another hurricane, a Puerto Rican family reflects how they hide their struggles from their Americanized relatives.

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

Shorty after WWII, a young girl and her mother are forced to move into her grandmother's mysterious and bleak house after her beloved father dies from a heart attack.

When the child of a young couple goes missing, the police and the townspeople blame the child's mother and wonder if she could even be at fault for the disappearance. A series of new and old discoveries plants seeds of doubt in the father's mind such that, even after his daughter is found, he worries his daughter isn't safe around his wife.

After being left behind by her husband and two sons due to her alleged "boringness," a woman must learn how to cope with her new life.