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

After a mother has an affair with her daughter's best friend's father, her daughter disappears and is substituted by another, almost-right version. Eventually, as the daughter starts changing more and more rapidly, the mother loses her daughter for good.

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

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.

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

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

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

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 young girl's mother goes to the hospital for an operation without explaining to her family what she is sick with or when she will return home.