On an alien world, a colony of humans has evolved to reproduce with one mother and many fathers. After delaying for years, one young woman finally chooses three fathers for her baby, but her desire for freedom draws her into the orbit of the post-human anthropologists who have come from the stars to study this quaint biological mating ritual.

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

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

A young girl stays with a bizarre family that has magical powers. As strange things happen to the family members, the girl starts to believe that the family lineage will die out.

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

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.

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

In a futuristic Kenya, a couple desperate for a son receives the customary 'installation' from the government, but the boy they receive is not what they expected.

An older mother frets over her third, most troublesome and combative daughter, who may be having an affair.

As a daughter prepares a meal for her divorced mother on her wedding anniversary, the mother reckons with how much her family has changed.