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.

When a young woman in a contemporary American city witnesses her father cheating on her mother, her entire world crashes down around her.

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 woman narrates the experience of sending her young daughter off every weekend to stay with her ex-husband and his boyfriend- until things change.

After a mother has an affair with her daughter's best friend's father, her daughter disappears and is substituted by another, almost-right version. Eventually, as the daughter starts changing more and more rapidly, the mother loses her daughter for good.

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.

A man meets his girlfriend’s mother. While at first she is cold to him, because of a secret his girlfriend won’t speak of, they grow close, begin to depend on each other.

When a teenage girl meets with her father to remind him of his late alimony payments, she feels disappointed by his unhelpful reaction.

A woman recalls the terrifying ventriloquist dummies her father made when she was a child and how she destroys them in order to save her mother.

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.