A woman slaps a man hard in the face for standing too close to her.
A man at work calls a female publisher old and she slaps him in the face.
Male business partners at a publishing house belittle a woman with seniority for having a child and she looks embarrassed.
A woman argues loudly with another woman, screaming because her son ran away from the other woman's house late at night while babysitting; men and women searched for the boy without success and the mother screamed loudly and threw books and papers off a table, shouting at friends to get out of her house.
A woman argues loudly with her ex-husband about raising their daughter according to a set of reasonable rules and about not giving the girl a cell phone, makeup and too much freedom.
A woman argues with her boyfriend about her ex-husband's controlling behavior and interfering with their relationship.
Five mothers of misbehaving preteens meet to discuss a school fundraiser they must organize to keep their kids from expulsion and get into a short argument about money and work.
A woman tells a female friend that she will slap her if she asks her to become a maid.
A mom and preteen son argue loudly about his spray-painting the side of his school and he tells her that he wants to live with his father, and then slams a bedroom door.
A white woman shouts that an African-American woman visiting in a white friend's house must be planning to rob it.
A woman cries loudly as her baby screams for a few minutes and recovers.
A woman argues with her middle school son, telling him that she will take him to the Mississippi and drop him in the desert; they argue about where the desert is located.
A little girl tells her mother that she witnessed her father treating her badly when the parents were married.
A mother says that her child's two older brothers are in prison for 25 years for armed robbery on a third strike conviction and that their dad is in prison forever.
We hear about and see a picture of two preteen boys vandalizing their upscale school building with spray-paint graffiti. A preteen boy receives a detention for an unknown rule infraction.
A preteen boy goes missing one night and returns the next morning when he says that he took a bus across town, where his estranged father took his money and his Gameboy, sold it for drug money and left him on the street alone at night; he says that he had to walk miles back home and that it took until morning, his mother shouts at him and they both cry for a few minutes.
Several women cry briefly as they talk about making mistakes in raising their children.
