One Mother's Day, two old women reflect on their relationships with their children--present and absent--and with the same adulterous man. When their paths cross at a crucial moment, one woman's refusal to accept the help of her husband's secret lover leads to her death.

After being abandoned at a young age, a woman tracks down her long-lost mother in a small town in America, where she watches her from a distance. The woman follows her mother as she goes about her daily routine, hoping to build up the courage to finally connect with her after thirty-one years.

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 mother's memory begins to deteriorate, her daughter catalogs her memories, both the ones she does and doesn't remember.

After a dying mother instructs her children to find their distant aunt and new guardian, they must step outside the home they have always known and embark on a journey toward their new life.

A mother, upon helping a girl at a playground one day, contemplates the nature of her marriage and the daughter who came from it.

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.

An encounter with a little boy and his abusive mother at an airport causes an old woman to reflect upon her relationship with her children and her late, depressive, and abusive ex-husband.

On the day of her mother's funeral, a young woman reminisces about the summers during her childhood spent with her family and friends at their lakeside cabin. As she considers her parents' nontraditional relationship, she also wonders about her own love life.

A young mother mourns the death of her firstborn child, a son, three days after his birth and falls into a bout of depression.