A child observes their father’s strange obsession with dressing up the pole in their front yard as they grow up.

In a Thai village, the life of a boy who the head monk believes has unlocked the highest state of enlightenment is jeopardized when the village chief seeks to exploit the local festival of floating lanterns for profit. Upon finding out the Thai village chief's evil scheme for the local lantern festival, a precocious child's life is threatened.

One day, a coach figures out how to get his high school football team into shape—and in touch with their fathers.

A mother, her two children, and their stepfather come over to a friend’s for a dinner on Labor Day.

At the root of her complicated family formed by her father and stepmother, a girl faces years of abuse through what they consider to be a “royal beating.”

A daughter, on the verge of becoming a mother, learns a great deal in spending time with her own mother.

The ex-wife of a famous male writer considers a story he wrote about a neighbor they once had.

A woman, living with her husband, is overcome with a strange, inexplicable ailment to her body.