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

A depressed woman drives her friends and therapist crazy, going ceaselessly on about the childhood trauma she incurred during her parents’ divorce settlings.

When a violent father receives a call from someone who claims to be his biological brother, he must re-evaluate what family means to him.

After an explosive argument with his father, a teenager runs away. His brother suspects he is staying with a friend in Brooklyn and goes to retrieve him.

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.

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

Two narcissistic adult daughters take exception to their wealthy parents' houseguests, a priest mourning his dead lover, and the strange and frumpy American woman Arleen. But Arleen possesses insight into the family that the girls' own parents lack.

A traumatized veteran returns from the war and must navigate the changes he finds in his disoriented personal life, all while enduring superficial judgments from his family and community.

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.

A wife and mother struggles with her mental health as she endures immense stress from trying to fix up the family's new house while preserving her marriage.