A stay-at-home dad with a wife who works in Manhattan attempts to find a sense of control by tenderly disciplining his young son after he puts himself in danger.

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

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.

An unemployed husband learns of an affair between his wife and her boss. He writes an emotional letter to the boss that details the course of his failing marriage, and he pleads with the boss to not take his wife away from him.

A jobless father attempts his best to care for his family, but when he begins to take his young son to play games and music at pubs, the son develops a destructive habit.

A man and his pregnant wife move from St. Louis to upstate Maine with their two boys. One Sunday, the man brings his two boys to the dockyard and must navigate how to parent as a working-class dad.

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

After the death of his mother, a man invites his father to move into his family's home but soon learns that his father's increasing age comes with unexpected new habits.

A disgruntled magazine proofreader returns to his childhood home in attempt to repair his parents' ongoing divorce.

When a middle-aged man's wife moves away to go back to school, he worries that he will not be able to care for their three children on his own. As the year goes on, the wife becomes increasingly distant, and the husband, resentful of her for leaving, wonders if he can trust her or if their marriage will soon fall apart.