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

In a futuristic Kenya, a couple desperate for a son receives the customary 'installation' from the government, but the boy they receive is not what they expected.

When a violent father receives a call from someone who claims to be his biological brother, he must re-evaluate what family means to him.

After being left behind by her husband and two sons due to her alleged "boringness," a woman must learn how to cope with her new life.

An elderly man realizes his troublesome son is the only thing keeping him going.

A bitter divorcee and distant father having an affair with a younger, married woman gets a call that his son has gotten into trouble at boarding school. He travels to the school, where the headmaster says his son, who beat up another student, must transfer. In a series of events that makes him increasingly bitter, he ends up making his son's girlfriend cry in a restaurant.

If two sisters are born to a family, they will be competitive for life.

In an attempt to impress his emotionally distant father, a boy ridicules his mother, who has loved him unconditionally even in his father's absence. Wracked with guilt, he yearns for her forgiveness - only to find that she does not hold it against him.

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

In a 20th century American town, a young man spies on a decisive duel between his neighbor and her son.