After two men get laid off from their construction jobs, they concoct a scheme to kidnap a local kid and earn ransom.

A son tells a series of stories, most of them about his father and stepfather. As the son describes a robbery that took place at his house in high school and his experiences with his father, a former Jehovah's Witness and current alcoholic, he begins to recall details from his childhood.

In Mississippi, a teenager comes home to find her mother murdered. It becomes clear to the girl that her father committed the crime, and she is forced to make a big decision in the court room.

The impact of an absent father emerges in the gruesome stories of a young daughter as her alcoholic mother listens and reflects on the struggles of raising her alone.

A shattered family grieves their missing infant boy's unsolved abduction, and are haunted decades following the crime.

A child chained in a cellar abused by their enraged parents decides to take matters into their own hands.

A mother's mistakes haunt her. When a man brutalizes her, she accepts his punches as punishment for her sins.

The brutal death of a baby on her street makes a young girl consider her own mother's morbid work.

After a local child goes missing, a mother watches her own child with caution and examines her relationship with the mother of the missing child.

In a small rural American town in the late 1800s, a woman's eldest son is accused of committing murder. She takes her younger children to watch him be executed, hoping they will not follow a similar path.