An overprotective mother attempts to get her teenage daughter to tell her why she is so upset. In an erratic and panicked conversation, the daughter reveals an unimaginable problem they must tackle together.

A stay-at-home dad with a wife who works in Manhattan attempts to find a sense of control by tenderly disciplining his young son after he puts himself in danger.

In an attempt to impress his emotionally distant father, a boy ridicules his mother, who has loved him unconditionally even in his father's absence. Wracked with guilt, he yearns for her forgiveness - only to find that she does not hold it against him.

A little girl acts out on purpose for the first time when she hacks her family's knives after her father told her not to.

A mother sends her young daughters to buy sugar, but to her great disdain, they end up playing with it.

An overbearingly strict schoolteacher wages a private war against his young, partying neighbors.

A daughter wakes up her mother to ask how much money she made from the dog races — but instead the mother distractedly dwells on her troubling encounters with men.

A girl raised on a farm by a strict Christian mother decides to indulge in her curiously and approaches a young farmhand, despite her mother's warnings that all men are sinful.

For a nine-year-old boy, a visit from his uncle, an alcoholic Irish bachelor, means surprising gifts and drama between his parents.

After experiencing what should have been the most idyllic childhood, four siblings must learn how to assimilate back into the real world.