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

A middle-aged man faces a difficult decision; he can choose to use genetic alteration to have a say over the life of his unborn child, or leave the future up to chance. As he struggles to choose a path, he reconsiders his own past and the struggles he has faced.

On an alien world, a colony of humans has evolved to reproduce with one mother and many fathers. After delaying for years, one young woman finally chooses three fathers for her baby, but her desire for freedom draws her into the orbit of the post-human anthropologists who have come from the stars to study this quaint biological mating ritual.

As a daughter prepares a meal for her divorced mother on her wedding anniversary, the mother reckons with how much her family has changed.

A wealthy family moves into a mansion on an island and raises several generations there. As the years pass, different family members show how things have both changed and also stayed the same within the house.

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

When a violent father receives a call from someone who claims to be his biological brother, he must re-evaluate what family means to him.

A complex web of human relationships is presented in the form of an algebraic expression.

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

Four generations of one family gather for a picture and tensions rise between distant relatives.