A young Black girl confronts her overbearing mother's poverty and her lack of a father when she is coerced into attending a program intended to make her a "professional" member of society who can break the cycle of poverty.

A sixteen-year-old girl spends a summer reading on a swing, dodging the expectations and pressures from her mother, father, and best friend.

In an alternate universe on the brink of World War IV, a girl struggles against the capitalist system that has deteriorated into a meaningless, exploitative life. How far is she willing to go to stay out of trouble?

A woman in her twenties struggles to recover the memories of what happened to her and her family at a young age.

In a dystopian society, a young widow is placed in a holding facility to spend her days learning home economics until she's chosen to be the wife of a new man.

A mother reflects on her past struggles with addiction.

A woman married at the age of sixteen sits in an out of the way cottage with her elderly husband longing for a life with other young people.

A middle-aged woman balances visits to the hospital to see her dying mother with her intense feelings of love for her meteorology professor.

After her father suffers a terrible accident, a farm girl from a distant planet reluctantly travels to Earth for an education.

In a near-future dystopian society, a Black, teenage girl determined to stay true to herself is valedictorian of her high school class; she knows success means she will be given over to an artificial intelligence-human hybrid surrounding her walled society of the last remaining humans.