After their mother leaves a preteen and her siblings, the preteen must navigate her emerging adolescence by herself in an orphanage.

Unwilling to return to boarding school, a girl begs her mother to let her leave. But when her father becomes involved, she must come to terms with the hatred she feels for her mother's weakness and dependence on alcohol.

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

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

An overprotective mother attempts to get her teenage daughter to tell her why she is so upset. In an erratic and panicked conversation, the daughter reveals an unimaginable problem they must tackle together.

A motherless young girl sent to boarding school by her single father is rattled by two women who begin to appear in her life in strange ways.

The impact of an absent father emerges in the gruesome stories of a young daughter as her alcoholic mother listens and reflects on the struggles of raising her alone.

A mother reflects on her failures to improve the troubled upbringing of her first daughter, who she raised as a single parent during the Great Depression.

A mother, upon helping a girl at a playground one day, contemplates the nature of her marriage and the daughter who came from it.

Isolation overwhelms a new mother as she struggles with emotional distance from her husband and son. In a desperate moment, she makes a rash decision to get a brief respite from the stress.