A couple adopts a troubled six year old child who takes a startling interest in one very precious item in their home.

While on vacation with his wife in Florida, a man is haunted by the memory of a past lover. Meanwhile, tension grows between him and his wife due to their struggle to conceive a child.

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

A married couple has decided to separate, but first they must go through the difficult task of telling their four children.

Reeling from his recent divorce, a man tries and fails to reason with his ex-wife. He hopes to find solace in the arms of his girlfriend, but realizes that sex will not fix the wound left by his dead marriage.

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.

A Native American woman reminisces on the story her great-grandfather would tell about running away with her great-grandmother. The woman draws parallels between the story and her own first love.

A privileged young woman from New England falls in love with a practical Midwesterner, but can their love withstand the grief of losing a child?

A series of vignettes about various sons along a family tree.

After watching his mother lose both of her past lovers to suicide, a young boy wonders what will become of his mother's new marriage to a rich man named Gent.