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

After being left behind by her husband and two sons due to her alleged "boringness," a woman must learn how to cope with her new life.

A low-income, single mom ponders how to comfort her son, who struggles to make friends at school. Even though she's been saving for a new dryer for months, she decides to buy him a robot at the local pawn shop.

A college professor sets out to show his elderly mother the simple joys of life and ends up learning about happiness and logic from her instead.

As his father grows distant, a boy with a developmental disability and his pregnant, newly single mother struggle to make ends meet on their own. Amid their arduous, chaotic lives, his piano lessons become an unexpected solace.

A single mother living in the Bay Area is attempting to successfully raise three children, but finds trouble optimizing both their freedom and their safety.

A Caribbean mother rants to her elementary-aged daughter about how to be a respectable girl. When the girls tries to reply, the mother continues her lecture.

Though numerous social workers try to step in, a co-dependent mother and son bounce from city to city, in search of a place where they can be together at all times.

On a whim, a man decides to cancel his children's music lessons and take them out for a day, hoping for quiet fun and an opportunity to learn more about their lives.

In an attempt to impress his emotionally distant father, a boy ridicules his mother, who has loved him unconditionally even in his father's absence. Wracked with guilt, he yearns for her forgiveness - only to find that she does not hold it against him.