An overprotective mother attempts to get her teenage daughter to tell her why she is so upset. In an erratic and panicked conversation, the daughter reveals an unimaginable problem they must tackle together.

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

After a local child goes missing, a mother watches her own child with caution and examines her relationship with the mother of the missing child.

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 woman examines a period of time in her childhood spent with her sister and the babysitter's son, viewing it through the lens of an adult, and ponders how the experience might have shaped her as a person.

When a mother proves unreliable, two girls try to figure out how to take care of a baby boy.

A young girl's mother goes to the hospital for an operation without explaining to her family what she is sick with or when she will return home.

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

While preparing his mother's birthday present, a young boy realizes he has lost her special pruning knife and laments that he has ruined her day.

A woman's complicated relationship to her mother is captured in three vignettes: one from directly after her death, one from when she is still alive, and one from years after she is gone.