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

When a mother takes her children to buy a puppy from another mother, she finds an unsettling household and a child chained like a dog in the backyard. Through their alternating narratives, both mothers reflect on what it means to love your children.

A Native American woman reminisces on the story her great-grandfather would tell about running away with her great-grandmother. The woman draws parallels between the story and her own first love.

A mother sorrowfully recounts her daughter’s first love and its destructive effects.

On the day of her mother's funeral, a young woman reminisces about the summers during her childhood spent with her family and friends at their lakeside cabin. As she considers her parents' nontraditional relationship, she also wonders about her own love life.

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

A man meets his girlfriend’s mother. While at first she is cold to him, because of a secret his girlfriend won’t speak of, they grow close, begin to depend on each other.

A privileged young woman from New England falls in love with a practical Midwesterner, but can their love withstand the grief of losing a child?

A woman with minimal relationship experience deals with the aftermath of her choice between her first love and her sick father.

A woman reflects on the relationships in her life starting with her sister, continuing onto her father, as well as her love.