An Italian-American family begins to crumble apart after experiencing several tragic accidents, but the father tries desperately to stay strong and remains optimistic that everyone will one day be together again.

A single mother living in the Bay Area is attempting to successfully raise three children, but finds trouble optimizing both their freedom and their safety.

A Californian couple takes their teenage daughter on boarding school tours in New England, hoping to provide her some freedom after their older daughter passed away a year ago.

A young girl from a family of migrant workers in California is invited to her wealthier school friend's birthday party.

A beautiful, recently divorced mother recounts to her date the story of her turbulent marriage in San Francisco with her border patrol ex-husband.

The lives of a teenage girl in an abusive relationship, an elderly mother looking to make amends, and an unfaithful wife converge on an unexpected evening.

An older mother frets over her third, most troublesome and combative daughter, who may be having an affair.

After her 10-year-old brother dies from AIDS, an adolescent girl's family moves to a less affluent neighborhood in Florida due to their extensive medical bills. When the girl babysits her new neighbors, two young Black girls, she reckons with subtle questions around race, wealth, class, and grief.

A financially struggling father tries to smuggle thousands of dollars' worth of Dairy Queen kids' meals toys across a Texas border in order to afford medical treatment for his unconscious daughter, but both the deal and his daughter's rescue go awry.

A Jewish mother wants her daughter to marry well and have a better life, but her husband doesn't seem to care. After her other daughter passes away, she realizes she should not hesitate to make bigger sacrifices.