Widowed after a marriage of convenience, Megan Wright raises her son alone while remembering her childhood ideals about love before becoming reacquainted with Casey Cummins, who is grieving the loss of his wife.

Sibylla and her prodigy son Ludo love Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, and this film prompts Ludo to try to find his father.

Author Bruce Feiler was a young father when he was diagnosed with cancer. He instantly worried what his daughters' lives would be like without him. "Would they wonder who I was? Would they yearn for my approval, my love, my voice?" Three days later he came up with a stirring idea: he would reach out to six men from all the passages in his life, and ask them to be present in the passages in his daughters' lives. And he would call this group "The Council...

A gay writer famous for his radio stories becomes the surrogate father to a thirteen-year-old child abuse victim, which forces him to confront his relationships.