Tabby Moskowitz feels most at home on the ballfield, but her mother has forbidden her from playing. In late 1950s Bronx, she learns that to lead a life she can live with, she just might have to make her own rules. 

A fleamarket vendor inspired in part by Archie Bunker tries to reconcile with his daughter, strike it rich as a podcaster, and quiet the rage inside him even as a Guayanan vendor and a couple of college kids poke at him. And then he raises his fists to the only other vendor who’s got his back.

An overstressed mother and her young daughter are united in their struggles with anxiety. What happens when a family vacation forces each of them to grapple with life’s ultimate uncertainty?

An airline mechanic with a modest education and home in Queens is ill-suited to grapple with the philosophical challenges posed by 9/11. He’ll have a hard enough time getting himself out of bed and find a way to comfort the sister-in-law he can’t stand, even as he knows she suffered unimaginable loss.

A boy about to celebrate his bar mitzvah is exposed, indirectly, to the horrors of Vietnam and  the ravages of drug addiction when he befriends a veteran. He’d always imagined he’d learn more as a he grows older, but what if becoming a man means coming to terms with all he can never know?

Two outcast teens, one Jewish, the other Muslim, bond over a shared love of punk and heavy metal. Years later, their friendship is severely tested by their respective wives’ intense disagreement over Israel. Can impending parenthood help them all find a way forward so the friendship continues into a second generation?

A middle-aged Catholic man develops an unhealthy obsession with murdering his boss, something he is reasonably certain he doesn’t actually want to do. He decides to share these thoughts with his ex-wife’s rabbi. What can go wrong?