A recently divorced, single mother travels to New England to see the man that has charmed her on the internet. He has asserted that he won't speak to her until she barks like a dog. She dismisses it as a joke. When she arrives at the airport, he sits with a newspaper in front of his face until she pulls down the paper and says "Woof, woof."
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A divorced father calls his ex-wife's house to speak to his young daughter. The ex-wife's "boyfriend" answers the phone and says "we sent the little brat outside so that we could have sex." He hangs up.
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It's a dark, hot, summer night in Mississippi. A young, pregnant mother hurries into her six year old daughter's bedroom, wakes her, puts her on her hip and kicks out a window yelling "HELP!" Suddenly, the pair are thrown across the room by a looming figure in the house, and the window is quickly put back on.
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A college student travels to Mississippi to see her sister and her new niece. While her sister is at work, the sister's husband says "You won't believe the shit I have to put up with. She lets that little brat of hers hold the baby! Oh but it gets worse. Do you know what she said to me when we started dating? She said 'My daughter comes first.' Well, we'll see about that!" The college student looks at him incredulously, waiting for the shocking reveal of what horrible thing her sister might have said. Realizing that "My daughter comes first" is the transgression, she stares at him and says "DUH! That's her kid! What did you expect when you dated a single mother?" He barely speaks 3 words to the younger sister the rest of the trip. The next morning, she awakens to a loud shout of "YO! WOMAN! BRING ME COFFEE!" Her sister dutifully obeys and she watches in horror.
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An eight year old girl gets picked up by her aunt to go to the movies. Her stepfather shouts at her that she can't leave until she picks up the dog food container from the backyard. She takes a moment too long to respond and he bellows, "SO JUST STAND THERE, DON'T F#@&ING DO IT!" Her aunt takes her by the hand, and walks out with her. The stepfather opens his mouth, and the aunt just holds up a hand and says "Try and stop me. I'll call DFACS."
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An eight year old girl lies shaking in bed holding her hands over her ears to shield them from the screaming. A trail of blood leads down the basement stairs where someone "fell" down them. Down the hall, her mother is screaming "GET OFF ME! GET THE H#$& OFF ME!!"
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A young woman receives a tired, weary phone call from her older sister. She asks if she can come and babysit that night because she needs to go to the ER. When she and her husband return home in the wee hours of the morning he pushes her into the guest room to wake her sister and tell her the news. She is expecting another baby, against medical advice. She has a heart murmur and doctors have advised against her having any more children. There is also a decent chance the child might have Down's. Tired and weary from a night of fear and stress in an Emergency Room, the older sister retires to her bedroom. The husband gets in the younger sister's face. "Will you smack some sense into her? She won't show any excitement."
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A sister gets a call asking if she will be her older sister's Lamaze coach. She asks what is wrong with her husband doing it? The older sister makes an excuse that he claims to have EMT training and wants to "deliver" the baby, rather than caring for her. The sister attends all the classes with her, stays up with her, brings her ice chips, takes care of her during the labor, while her husband snores loudly in the chair. The next morning the baby is born. The husband clearly has no clue how to deliver a baby, and the doctor takes over before any damage is done.
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A young mother, going through a divorce reaches out to her older sister for support. The young mother calls her sister one afternoon, knowing that she was just getting out of a movie with her father and stepmother. She asks if she can join them for dinner and bring the kids since she was in the neighborhood and the kids wanted to see their aunt. The older sister's husband forbids it.
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A college student gets a surprise visit from her estranged stepfather. He tells her that she should not have anything to do with her aunt, because she is getting divorced. She tells the aunt and laments that he controls everything - that she never gets to spend any time alone with her mother without him there. The aunt tells her not to worry - that she will take care of it.
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A sister receives an email from her younger sister requesting a "girls' day". She wants to go, but knows it has to be quick and inexpensive for fear of her husband finding out what they are up to. She agrees. They all have a wonderful afternoon together.
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A young woman receives a call from her abusive brother-in-law saying that her sister is missing, but he refuses to call the police. Her father calls them, and the husband calls immediately afterwards. Less than a week later, she is there when the search party finds her sister's body in the woods near her house. Her husband has lawyered up, and informed a funeral home that he wants his wife's family to have "nothing to do with the arrangements" for her funeral. "I'm the husband! I should have the authority!" he bellows to the funeral director.
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