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

If two sisters are born to a family, they will be competitive for life.

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.

A mother and her adult daughter act as the waitstaff in a beautiful home and mostly pass unnoticed by the inhabitants. However, when the daughter develops a fascination with an inattentive man who lives in the home, disappointment and devastation result when he moves away.

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

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

During her conversations with her mother, a daughter often muses about the past, both politically and personally. She discovers more about her mother but also about the world around her as she observes life and its souvenirs.

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.

When a young woman in a contemporary American city witnesses her father cheating on her mother, her entire world crashes down around her.

An encounter with a little boy and his abusive mother at an airport causes an old woman to reflect upon her relationship with her children and her late, depressive, and abusive ex-husband.