When a family reunion brings together siblings, they realize they are now more like strangers. At the end of the day, a shocking incident tests their bonds.

A blissfully naïve young couple hopes to avoid the fate of the husband's unhappy parents, but as his jealous mother, children, and resentments come between them, the young couple falls into the same pitfalls.

An investigator stays in a family home in order to become acquainted with the family and all their intricacies while he investigates the case of family's adult son, who has threatens to kill the president of the United States to spare the lives of those involved in Vietnam.

A somewhat estranged family grapples with the impending death of their mother.

At an Easter party in Kansas, a teenage girl realizes her mother might be having an affair with her employer—who is hosting the party. When her father shows up unexpectedly, the room becomes tense, and while her parents stay together, her mother never works for the man again.

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.

A working-class mother has held only one hope for her entire life: that one day, her daughter would marry well and wealthy, and take care of her in her old age. When her daughter reveals that the man she loves is not wealthy, her mother's dreams of rest are dashed and divided.

When a young woman's father, a famous photographer, passes away, she thinks that life will be better out from under her father's overbearing eye — and camera — but she finds that her grief is greater than she had expected.

In an alternate universe of white suburban America, one nine-year-old girl's childhood is cut short when her parents find her a marital match: a socially-awkward businessman with a ridiculous mustache. Although she surrenders to her mother's housewife training, when the day of the wedding arrives, she tries to escape, endangering her and others in the process.

After he gets divorced, a father finds renewed purpose through his role as a single parent and the precious time he spends with his children.