A young girl and her mother travel to Florida to visit the girl's father and uncle during the prohibition era, only to find that the uncle has married into a dangerous family of moonshiners.

An old drunk abuses his wife and children, which negatively impacts their lives in numerous ways. One day, the drunkard faces a tragic accident which allows his family to finally be free of his tyranny.

When a young Jewish girl in Prohibition-era Brooklyn befriends a Black thirteen-year-old boy who claims he's dead, she thinks nothing of it and invites him and his father over for Sabbath dinner. Through the conversation between her father and the boy's father, the fates of their children are revealed.

An alcoholic housewife struggles with her family obligations and her addiction.

As he flushes three decades of narcotics out of his system, an Arkansas man recalls a traumatic hunting trip into the woods with his father and his friends. In this memory, he finds the roots of both his addiction and his identity.

A western town’s rule-flaunting, drunken personality is locked up for hiding his still in the church basement, while his son is finally released from the school that had for so long oppressed him.

One Thanksgiving Day, a young boy in a big family in Nashville watches as his older siblings, aunt, uncle, and parents find their purpose in life and become strangers to him.

A liquor seller living in Rock City tries to explain why he is home so late after making a delivery to the observatory at an unusual hour.

A writer summers with his mistress and part of her family. The group runs into one of his former students, and they all smoke together.

A counselor breaks his sobriety streak after several meetings with a frustrating client. After arguing with his wife while drunk, the counselor begins to feel murderous and must fight his violent urges to earn back her trust.