A wife and mother struggles with her mental health as she endures immense stress from trying to fix up the family's new house while preserving her marriage.

After having an affair with a married man, a woman divorces her old husband and remarries, but she struggles to keep up with the compounded responsibilities of mother- and step-motherhood.

A blissfully naïve young couple hopes to avoid the fate of the husband's unhappy parents, but as his jealous mother, children, and resentments come between them, the young couple falls into the same pitfalls.

When a man's son visits with his new girlfriend, the father worries that she is only interested in the grand house and family money. The father knows he should not intervene in his son's relationship, but the more time he spends with them, the more he dislikes her and the more difficult it gets to stay quiet.

An older mother frets over her third, most troublesome and combative daughter, who may be having an affair.

A suburban middle-aged wife in contemporary America organizes an intervention with her children for their loving but alcoholic father. As the pieces come together, she tries to back away from the plan out of solidarity with her husband because of how he dealt with her past transgressions.

An investigator stays in a family home in order to become acquainted with the family and all their intricacies while he investigates the case of family's adult son, who has threatens to kill the president of the United States to spare the lives of those involved in Vietnam.

A woman returns home to her family having just slept with another man. At dinner, her son gets into an argument with his father about their privilege. As the narrative moves back to the time they spent abroad in Nigeria, Burma and Ecuador, fractures in the family life are revealed.

During WWII, years after his parent's divorce, a college student and his brother visit their father and his new wife. However, the visit leaves him disappointed at what his father's life has become.

The children in a family grow tired of hosting their middle-aged cousin, but his expulsion brings unexpected strife to the family.