A woman examines a period of time in her childhood spent with her sister and the babysitter's son, viewing it through the lens of an adult, and ponders how the experience might have shaped her as a person.

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

A mother, upon helping a girl at a playground one day, contemplates the nature of her marriage and the daughter who came from it.

A young boy, who is still unaware of his future in which his mother dies and he becomes a miserable, unaccomplished middle-aged man, lives through an ever-so-slightly unusual day which would later become the one and only core memory he has of his mother.

A man thinks about his relationship with his parents (especially his mother) as he watches them grow old. He then realizes that he is now old too.

A man reflects on his complicated summers with his father.

During her conversations with her mother, a daughter often muses about the past, both politically and personally. She discovers more about her mother but also about the world around her as she observes life and its souvenirs.

After her son dies, a mother reckons with the grandson he left behind.

A son takes his aging mother back on a visit to his childhood home. Though he expected the house to remain at least a little bit familiar, both his fromer home and his mother had changed considerably with the passing of time.

A girl going through puberty hopelessly tries to hold onto childhood during a day at the beach, but meddling mothers push her to grow up.