Despite his wife's pleas for him to behave at the annual family reunion, a man finds himself engaging in hand-to-hand combat with his brother-in-law after a few drinks.

After subconsciously imagining getting a divorce from his wife, a man examines his marriage and tries to convince himself that he still loves his family enough to stay with them.

While witnessing his boys of his neighbor's family commit chaotic damage to the people of the neighborhood, a father continues to show kindness. The neighbor's family faces their own drama until they are no longer a part of the neighborhood.

A little girl acts out on purpose for the first time when she hacks her family's knives after her father told her not to.

A married woman ponders the kindness and subsequent coldness of her mother-in-law.

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.

After one woman's husband has an affair with the neighbor, the two women erect a bamboo fence so they never have to look at each other. Once the husband leaves, the married woman's son grows sicker as he longs for the company of his half-sister next door.

A boy is invited to a hogs hunt and dinner party and encounters the quirky members of the host's family.

Two brothers are left under the unreliable care of their alcoholic uncle when their parents leave town.

A jealous husband invites his beautiful wife’s worldly friend to dinner and the night ends with a tragic accident.