A Native American woman reminisces on the story her great-grandfather would tell about running away with her great-grandmother. The woman draws parallels between the story and her own first love.

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

Four women–a retired dancer enacting an old dance, a grandmother preparing a birthday dinner for her family, her granddaughter participating in a genetics study, and a researcher quantifying the burden of old memories–all unite under the combined weight of their war-burdened pasts in the contemporary United States.

Four generations of one family gather for a picture and tensions rise between distant relatives.

A man looks back on his father-in-law's life after he passes away, thinking of the many jobs he held and his military service.

After an esteemed professor of anthropology writes a memoir detailing her family's experience during the Holocaust, an elderly woman reaches out, insisting that she is the professor's long-lost cousin.

In an attempt to mend her family's generational trauma, a young Black girl embarks on a four-day therapeutic retreat that will end in reconnecting with their enslaved ancestors.

A woman tells the story of her father's mother, a Jewish woman from Germany who moves to Latvia to marry an older man during the middle of the twentieth century, to her daughter. The woman reminds her daughter to be cautious of dreamers and to always read the news so that she does not end up with the same fate as that of the grandmother.

A Russian Jewish immigrant is at a loss for words when his young daughter asks him a philosophical question. He remembers his childhood in his family's peasant village.

A man thinks about his relationship with his parents (especially his mother) as he watches them grow old. He then realizes that he is now old too.