A complex web of human relationships is presented in the form of an algebraic expression.

When a man's son visits with his new girlfriend, the father worries that she is only interested in the grand house and family money. The father knows he should not intervene in his son's relationship, but the more time he spends with them, the more he dislikes her and the more difficult it gets to stay quiet.

Over dinner, an observer reflects on mothers and their omnipresent prevalence in children’s lives.

The children in a family grow tired of hosting their middle-aged cousin, but his expulsion brings unexpected strife to the family.

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 bitter divorcee and distant father having an affair with a younger, married woman gets a call that his son has gotten into trouble at boarding school. He travels to the school, where the headmaster says his son, who beat up another student, must transfer. In a series of events that makes him increasingly bitter, he ends up making his son's girlfriend cry in a restaurant.

If two sisters are born to a family, they will be competitive for life.

A woman reflects on the relationships in her life starting with her sister, continuing onto her father, as well as her love.

A series of vignettes about various sons along a family tree.

A woman with minimal relationship experience deals with the aftermath of her choice between her first love and her sick father.