A teenager learns how to cope with the premature loss of his father. Through a newly developed relationship with his uncle, he discovers a new version of his father he wasn't privy to during his life.

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.

Having just lost their mother, three siblings do their best to preserve her memory even as they deal with unsympathetic adults determined to force change into their lives.

After he loses his mother, a father feels unmoored and lashes out at his family as the winter solstice arrives.

A man mourns the death of his wife and celebrates the birth of his child.

After a ten-year-old boy joins his parents in bidding his grandfather farewell as he leaves New York for Germany, he experiences the first major loss of his youth and struggles to understand the complexity of the experience.

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

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

After her son dies, a mother reckons with the grandson he left behind.

A young Chinese-American woman struggles to tell her dying father that her son has committed suicide.