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

A boy wonders who his real friends are.

Two childhood best friends have trouble reconciling the nature of their friendship—and the different worlds they now live in—after having grown up together.

To introduce his new classmate, Augie Sheean, to the kids in town, a boy spends most of his time with the Sheeans and learns about forgiveness and friendship.

A teenage girl attends a party with her friend — but when her friend ditches her at the party, the girl realizes their friendship may not be the unbreakable bond she thought it was.

An afternoon at the park takes an unexpected turn for a mother and her son as the well-established families that they admire turn out to be unhappy people who secretly enjoy the misery of others. As the day progresses, the mother is surprised to learn that she and her son share many negative qualities with those families.

In 1985, a New Jersey single mom navigates the struggle of discipline versus understanding as her teenage son and daughter party more and more on the weekends.

With plans to head home the minute the clock strikes 4:30, a young girl arrives at a birthday party fashionably late and realizes she is the only guest who came.

A boy feels isolated from his group of friends and targets his rage towards the most popular of them all. When he realizes the extent of the influence this enemy wields, he is forced to come to terms with the hopelessness of his situation.

In an attempt to impress his emotionally distant father, a boy ridicules his mother, who has loved him unconditionally even in his father's absence. Wracked with guilt, he yearns for her forgiveness - only to find that she does not hold it against him.