The children in a family grow tired of hosting their middle-aged cousin, but his expulsion brings unexpected strife to the family.

After their mother leaves a preteen and her siblings, the preteen must navigate her emerging adolescence by herself in an orphanage.

A young orphaned girl becomes frightened when she hears rustling outside her window, which she believes comes from a prisoner who escaped from the nearby prison.

After losing his parents in Turkey, a newly orphaned boy starts a new life in the Russian town of Batum and yearns to be like the other boys, complete with a Russian cap of his own.

Shorty after WWII, a young girl and her mother are forced to move into her grandmother's mysterious and bleak house after her beloved father dies from a heart attack.

A depressed old woman tries her best to care for a great-grandchild who unexpectedly enters her life, but he ignores all of her shows of affection and does not say a word back for months.

After a boy moves into a house full of women, the youngest daughter's life begins to change.

Two brothers are left under the unreliable care of their alcoholic uncle when their parents leave town.

After an elderly woman, is kicked out of her son's home, she breaks into a stranger's house and begins to secretly live in his closet in Hong Kong.

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