A father-son duo of physicists set out to explore the mysteries of time travel, but when they manage to bring something back from the prehistoric past, they find that their discovery is far beyond what they expected.

Climbing up a hill in the Bay Area, a man plans how to impress his favorite writer with a gift of a rare book. The man's three-year-old son, however, has other plans.

A father and son need to get home by Christmas Eve dinner, but a late departure from the Cascade Mountains and a closed road make the trip home difficult and dangerous.

A boy rides along in his father's truck, but when he breaks his father's only rule—don't touch anything—by turning on the radio, he hears another trucker threatening the safety of his father.

After he loses his mother, a father feels unmoored and lashes out at his family as the winter solstice arrives.

A family finds out that their father was sent on a train from Florida to New York by himself when he was five years old, and one of the sons thinks this event explains his father's strict and grumpy demeanor in response to his children's playful antics.

A young boy living in North Carolina watches his mentally suffering mother yearn for her husband to be home, though his job requires him to be out of town five days a week.

A chronically ill teenager grapples with his mother’s instability and his stepfather’s absence while turmoil in the neighborhood sparks a sobering revelation.