A girl flees her home when her parents want to send her back to her abusive husband.

After their stay in a rundown boardinghouse, a boy and his mother hunt for an apartment and the boy dreams of a house with a warm fireplace of his own.

A young boy who spends his time in an abandoned house fears for his own future happiness after he watches his father live a difficult life.

A mother struggles to provide her daughter with comfort in an unstable home as her husband constantly searches for new employment.

A man reflects on the loneliness of his childhood home, where his family would fervently clean the house every Saturday for guests on Sunday who would never show.

After his mother passes, a middle-aged man reminisces on the relationship between himself, his mother, and their house in rural Pennsylvania.

A young girl trying to cope after her mother's death decides to build a fort in the woods. There, she meets a lonely man who experienced living in the wilderness, and their friendship helps them overcome their grief.

Terrence and Ruth, a middle-aged couple, move house for a fresh start - but their new house is in disrepair. Ruth contends with sickness, unfulfillment, and her staling marriage while laboriously cleaning it.

When a mother upends her life and moves to a newly formed settlement with her family in Montana, she is forced to rethink her values and comfort zone.

A housewife lets a hardworking seventeen-year-old boy with a difficult past rent a room in her house, which results in an unlikely friendship as he learns about kindness and trust.