Because of her peculiar disposition, a young woman faces several challenges while living in her hometown in South Carolina. However, the same traits that her town sees as undesirable might just save her life when she becomes imprisoned in an enemy camp during World War II.

In a small village in Ireland, a single mother of three copes with the loss of her husband and the increasingly hectic responsibilities of raising three daughters by seeking happiness above all else.

In the distant future where communication is supposed to be made simple, a mother continues to struggle to break through to her young daughter, even with a visit to a unique museum that pays tribute to miscommunication between people through the ages.

During her conversations with her mother, a daughter often muses about the past, both politically and personally. She discovers more about her mother but also about the world around her as she observes life and its souvenirs.

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.

While on vacation in the countryside, a woman prepares lunch for her husband and their daughter, only to have her plans spoiled when their daughter insists on going to the neighbor's farm to watch a goat give birth.

Seasonal changes and religious renewal spark melancholy in a teenage girl as she realizes the realities of womanhood by observing her mother.

California has seceded from America, and Molly and her daughter Phoebe run a bookstore that straddles the troubled border of the two countries. When outright war breaks out, Molly and Phoebe must protect their customers - American and Californian alike - but the customers are not all willing to get along.

After an elderly Black woman suddenly falls ill, her three half-daughters reunite in their old home in Alabama to be with her.

A mother sorrowfully recounts her daughter’s first love and its destructive effects.