In Mississippi, a teenager comes home to find her mother murdered. It becomes clear to the girl that her father committed the crime, and she is forced to make a big decision in the court room.

After their father's accidental murder of a white man is revealed, two young Black girls scramble to save their father from a lifetime of prison.

When a young woman in a contemporary American city witnesses her father cheating on her mother, her entire world crashes down around her.

A mother's mistakes haunt her. When a man brutalizes her, she accepts his punches as punishment for her sins.

A father driving his son's girlfriend home at night takes a deliberately wrong turn and stops on a back road, where he demands she stop seeing his son. To counter his ultimatum, the girl threatens to accuse the father of sexual assault before leaving the car and running home through the night.

A teenage girl discovers that her father has cheated on her mother, and reveals this fact on a family vacation in Puerto Vallarta.

A woman on a grand jury hears the case of an older woman who was brutally raped by one of her former students. She attempts to understand the different ways the story disturbs her.

A son tells a series of stories, most of them about his father and stepfather. As the son describes a robbery that took place at his house in high school and his experiences with his father, a former Jehovah's Witness and current alcoholic, he begins to recall details from his childhood.

After a ten-year-old boy accidentally kills his friend in 1970s Massachusetts, his father's decision to frame an innocent man unleashes a storm he could never have expected. But why did he lie, and whose fault is it?

Thirteen-year-old Angelle gets into a car accident when her drunken father begs her to drive home in his stead. Later, she must take the witness stand in court and decide her family's future with her testimony.