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

On Mother's Day, a group of mother-less women go to a pub to enjoy each other's company. One of them is pregnant, and another is planning to adopt. A woman contemplates her pregnancy at a dinner with her friends on Mother's Day. All the women's mothers have passed away.

A mother with a inferiority complex who is being monitored by her own oppressive mother starts receiving mysterious texts from a stranger. Her obsession with the perfection of Hallmark movies leads her to pursue a forbidden attraction that endangers her safety and wellbeing.

A low-income, single mom ponders how to comfort her son, who struggles to make friends at school. Even though she's been saving for a new dryer for months, she decides to buy him a robot at the local pawn shop.

A woman grapples with how quickly time slips by with a new baby, and how to protect her, as her partner stresses over the doom and gloom of the news.

A mother reflects on her failures to improve the troubled upbringing of her first daughter, who she raised as a single parent during the Great Depression.

After a tumultuous and difficult upbringing, a woman contemplates whether or not she should give up her newborn child for adoption.

After being left behind by her husband and two sons due to her alleged "boringness," a woman must learn how to cope with her new life.

A mother and her adult daughter act as the waitstaff in a beautiful home and mostly pass unnoticed by the inhabitants. However, when the daughter develops a fascination with an inattentive man who lives in the home, disappointment and devastation result when he moves away.

A college counselor watches anxiously as her teenage son applies to college without her help. As her son plans for his future, the counselor and her husband reflect on how quickly their lives have changed, seeking ways to steady themselves in the midst of middle age.