In the early twentieth century, a daughter of plantation owners enjoys playing with the daughter of her black nanny. When she is required to play with a white girl from another plantation, she struggles between keeping her original friendship and succumbing to the racist pressures of her society.

A man who couldn't afford a piano as a child stops to play one in a store as his companion thinks about his potential and the importance of self-confidence.

After a local child goes missing, a mother watches her own child with caution and examines her relationship with the mother of the missing child.

After the first-born son of a family unknowingly passes the lethal Scarlet Fever to his younger brother, he lives with the guilt of his brother's tragic death throughout the rest of his adulthood.