A mother runs away with her two daughters after killing her husband and camps at a beach that plagues her with nightmares. When she wakes she must get her daughters out quickly after they find two dead bodies.

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.

A Quaker family living in the North during the Civil War is morally opposed to violence and must reckon with their son's temptations to join the battle.