A teenager learns how to cope with the premature loss of his father. Through a newly developed relationship with his uncle, he discovers a new version of his father he wasn't privy to during his life.

A series of vignettes about various sons along a family tree.

At a Blues Festival, a fourteen-year-old boy talks to his father for the first time but does not reveal who he is.

A soon-to-be groom worries about his father's health as the old, surly man reminisces about his past. He must come face the reality of his family situation while tending to his own personal matters.

A man reflects on his complicated summers with his father.

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.

Sometime during the 20th century, two young boys wake up excitedly on a Florida day with the hope of seeing their estranged father, unaware of how reality will not meet their expectations.

On the day of her mother's funeral, a young woman reminisces about the summers during her childhood spent with her family and friends at their lakeside cabin. As she considers her parents' nontraditional relationship, she also wonders about her own love life.

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.

After a ten-year-old boy joins his parents in bidding his grandfather farewell as he leaves New York for Germany, he experiences the first major loss of his youth and struggles to understand the complexity of the experience.