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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.

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

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

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 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 young woman has a baby, but her traumatic past makes her doubt her capabilities of being a good mother.

A writer reflects on his mother’s incredible strength, which he depicts in a short story. However, his mother does not approve of the piece as he had hoped, and he soon makes an important discovery.

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.

A young girl's mother goes to the hospital for an operation without explaining to her family what she is sick with or when she will return home.

A working-class mother has held only one hope for her entire life: that one day, her daughter would marry well and wealthy, and take care of her in her old age. When her daughter reveals that the man she loves is not wealthy, her mother's dreams of rest are dashed and divided.