When a freakish accident turns her husband into a violent man in 1950s Texas, Loretta must decide if filing for divorce is enough or if she will need to kill him.

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.

A divorced reporter and actress in LA see each other each time the ex-husband visits his children in the ex-wife's custody, forcing them to confront lingering attachment and resentment.

After having an affair with a married man, a woman divorces her old husband and remarries, but she struggles to keep up with the compounded responsibilities of mother- and step-motherhood.

A woman's ex-husband comes to visit her after their divorce. The two talk about their new lives. They taunt each other, and new animosity sparks between them.

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.

Though numerous social workers try to step in, a co-dependent mother and son bounce from city to city, in search of a place where they can be together at all times.

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

After a lawyer's wife leaves him, the lawyer returns home from work to learn from his son that there is an intruder in their home.

A mother's mistakes haunt her. When a man brutalizes her, she accepts his punches as punishment for her sins.