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

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

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.

When a mother takes her children to buy a puppy from another mother, she finds an unsettling household and a child chained like a dog in the backyard. Through their alternating narratives, both mothers reflect on what it means to love your children.

A married geneticist and pediatrician live across the world from each other. Their daughter watches her father's affair with a woman only seven years her elder in Oxford.

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.

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

A woman develops a risky love for her son's pediatrician, despite the fact that they are both married.

Though numerous social workers try to step in, a co-dependent mother and son bounce from city to city, in search of a place where they can be together at all times.

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