A teacher finds herself entangled in the life of a mesmerising student, only to learn that everything he told her about himself was a lie.

A teacher in Washington tries to comfort one of his students—an orphan who is dying from a chronic disease—opting to be her guardian for the summer even in the face of her looming, imminent death.

In an epistolary-like work, a father must choose between a job he loves and his relationship with his son.

A young college professor struggles with how to communicate with her father after she learns that he has prostate cancer.

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.

The daughter of a prominent psychoanalyst is forced to admit her father to a retirement home due to his declining mental state. Initially skeptical of the severity of his condition, she later experiences one of his episodes and must rethink her father's true condition.

A first-generation college student, hours from graduating, dreads leaving school and her faculty mentor for the "real world" and her traditional, Eastern European parents.

A college professor sets out to show his elderly mother the simple joys of life and ends up learning about happiness and logic from her instead.

A middle-aged woman balances visits to the hospital to see her dying mother with her intense feelings of love for her meteorology professor.

As a university professor acts as a sounding board for everyone else’s problems, her own stress mounts to a dangerous peak.