A father has an increasingly difficult time getting his son ready in the morning and notices that all the young kids around the neighborhood are acting strange. When his son becomes violent, the father must decide if it is really his son anymore.

The impact of an absent father emerges in the gruesome stories of a young daughter as her alcoholic mother listens and reflects on the struggles of raising her alone.

When a mother takes her children to buy a puppy from another mother, she finds an unsettling household and a child chained like a dog in the backyard. Through their alternating narratives, both mothers reflect on what it means to love your children.

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.

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

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.

After her son dies, a mother reckons with the grandson he left behind.

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 mother struggles to come to terms with her son's mental illness, and begins to realize how poorly society treats people like him.

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.