After a dangerous encounter with a predatory artist in the 1980s, a former artist-turned-housewife tries to imbue her oblivious teenage daughter with that same fear of men that leaves her cold decades later.

A teenage girl who lives with her grandparents in France learns about art, beauty, and womanhood from the underpaid models who pose for her grandfather's paintings. One of the former exploited models becomes a mentor to the girl and inspires her to make things right.

A young woman stumbles upon an explicit photograph of her now-deceased mother hung in a museum. She tracks down the photographer looking for answers she may not care to find.

A woman on a farm in France in the late 1800s meet a curious young man who is an artist. The two develop a friendly relationship as they learn from each other new ways of seeing the world.

When her son is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, a woman on a job in England must find her way home and balance her work in architecture and life with her family in Chicago.

A working-class mother has held only one hope for her entire life: that one day, her daughter would marry well and wealthy, and take care of her in her old age. When her daughter reveals that the man she loves is not wealthy, her mother's dreams of rest are dashed and divided.

A woman's complicated relationship to her mother is captured in three vignettes: one from directly after her death, one from when she is still alive, and one from years after she is gone.

When a young woman's father, a famous photographer, passes away, she thinks that life will be better out from under her father's overbearing eye — and camera — but she finds that her grief is greater than she had expected.

A young girl understands the young life and affairs of her recently passed aunt through a combination of her mother's memory, oral history, and photographs.

After twenty long years of destitution from being rejected by popular art sellers, an artist decides to reverse his misfortune by besting the Metropolitan Museum of Art.