While a mid-western US man waits for his family to gather in the car to finally leave his in-law's house, he wanders around the area and thinks about the importance of family, even though he and his father-in-law often disagree on values.

On a rural Nebraska farm, a young woman, who married into a farmer's family, tries to help her sister-in-law, who is upset with the mundane of farm life and her husband.

After struggling to appeal to their state governor, a dysfunctional family anxiously awaits the public execution of a relative. As they wait at home new of the execution, tensions and strife erupt in a dispute over the relative's innocence.

Three generations of men grapple with the effects of unemployment and lost hope over Thanksgiving.

A daughter is left to be raised by her grandparents after her teen mom disappears, only to find herself in her senior year, pregnant and forced to leave her child with her grandparents as she joins the army.

As an old woman revisits her family's quintessentially American history, she finds a way to respect and love her parents, despite the scandals and tragedies they endured.

An investigator stays in a family home in order to become acquainted with the family and all their intricacies while he investigates the case of family's adult son, who has threatens to kill the president of the United States to spare the lives of those involved in Vietnam.

A man living on a TV show struggles to reconcile his privileged, wealthy lifestyle with the American-driven horrors occurring elsewhere in the world — especially when they begin to show up in his backyard.

When a young man moves in with his pregnant girlfriend's family in the Pacific Northwest, he feels increasingly trapped by his girlfriend's secrets, her brother's drunken behavior, and the demanding land on the family's orchard.

A family’s plans for the first day of the hunting season are delayed when the reason behind one son and his wife’s separation is revealed.