After his mother leaves to work as a nurse in Rwanda, a child's hypochondriac father diagnoses him with all kinds of different ailments. He uses these misdiagnoses to explain away his son's silence and strange behavior.

Extreme hunger takes over the lives and sanity of two girls living in Germany's time of war.

Decades after a woman's marriage fell apart, she watches her home movies and remembers everything that came to pass and her own role in events.

To introduce his new classmate, Augie Sheean, to the kids in town, a boy spends most of his time with the Sheeans and learns about forgiveness and friendship.

A ten-year-old girl witnesses a fire at her neighbors house. The arsonist, an employee, is found dead, and the girl is disturbed by his ghostly presence in her mind.

With plans to head home the minute the clock strikes 4:30, a young girl arrives at a birthday party fashionably late and realizes she is the only guest who came.

A young girl talks about her friend who has a mother having an affair. The girl and her friend engage in their own scandalous behavior for fun and live for the thrill.