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.

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

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

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 Palestinian woman searches for a way to break a cycle of patriarchal expectations and her own sense of malaise to find her own path in life.

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.

A divorced woman reckons with losing the closeness that she took for granted in her marriage when her ex-husband and his new wife come to visit.

Having just lost their mother, three siblings do their best to preserve her memory even as they deal with unsympathetic adults determined to force change into their lives.

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.

When a teenage girl meets with her father to remind him of his late alimony payments, she feels disappointed by his unhelpful reaction.