A New Yorker returns to his childhood home with his family and comes to understand family dynamics more acutely when he visits a drug store run by a pharmacist whom he used to terrorize as a child.

A son takes his aging mother back on a visit to his childhood home. Though he expected the house to remain at least a little bit familiar, both his fromer home and his mother had changed considerably with the passing of time.

Judith, a professor of marine biology, takes a sabbatical year after her childhood friend drunkenly calls her on her birthday