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

A woman narrates the experience of sending her young daughter off every weekend to stay with her ex-husband and his boyfriend- until things change.

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

When a man's son visits with his new girlfriend, the father worries that she is only interested in the grand house and family money. The father knows he should not intervene in his son's relationship, but the more time he spends with them, the more he dislikes her and the more difficult it gets to stay quiet.

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.

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

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

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.

An older mother frets over her third, most troublesome and combative daughter, who may be having an affair.