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- Donte Handcock's dream of running a successful neighborhood bar is thwarted at every turn by his sister's strict accounting, disagreeable staff and his own abject incompetence.
- Powerful stories about how we treat women who don't have kids.
- Two people meet for the first time in 25 years and discover they have very different recollections of the event that changed their lives.
- Sally has ended her relationship with her partner because he wants kids, and she isn't sure if she does - and either way she wants to be sure.
- Mary looks back on her life and reflects on the two questions she gets asked most often. She ponders the hypocrisy of language as it relates to gender, and asks why nobody ever asks a parent if they regret having children. Completely at peace with her life choices, she is glad that she lives in her world, and no-one else's.
- Louise ponders the news that her sister's diagnosis reveals the same mental health issue that affected their mother. Reeling from the news that it may also impact her too, Louise wonders what sort of mother that would make her if she did have kids of her own, especially if that means passing it on to them. She also considers whether the kindest thing she could do would be to let her husband find happiness and children elsewhere.
- Skylar confides in her journal after a disastrous evening during which her date left, mid-burger when she told him she didn't want kids. She considers setting up her own child-free members club as she reflects on how bad a date has to be for a guy to leave half his burger, and what the reaction would be a woman did something similar.
- After several months off after a traumatic incident, Bryony has a difficult return to work at the restaurant during her first shift back. She wonders why people think it is OK for strangers to ask her personal questions just because she is serving them their dinner. We learn about her heartbreaking experience.
- After receiving the news that a close friend is pregnant, Megan imagines the next ten years of her life and the inevitable questions she will be asked about when she too will have a child. A child she is adamant that she doesn't want.
- Svetlana ponders why her mum is always trying to set her up with a boy from back home, and whether the kindest thing she can do for the child she doesn't have is to not bring her into the world.
- Mona asks why people question her ability to teach children when she doesn't have kids of her own, and why she is determined to be honest with her students, especially when they live in a world that hands out medals just for showing up.
- Lauren reflects on the wedding conversation that changed her life, and how she never dated anyone that made her feel that she wanted to be a mom. So instead, she's in love with being Lauren.
- Stacey pays her mum a birthday visit and reflects on the prediction a school teacher made over a decade ago. She hopes her mum would have been proud of her, even had the prediction come true.
- As she reflects on her sister's imminent wedding, Dawn slips into a stream of consciousness as she debates who to take as her plus one.
- Midway through an arranged date, Claire freaks out in the bathroom as she releases that for the first time in her life she can make her own decisions - the problem is, she doesn't know what she wants.
- During her regular radio show, DJ Sarah answers questions from her listeners concerning a video she made about women who freeze their "lady eggs". As her listeners report it is clear that it's not all plain sailing.
- As Siân prepares for her late husband's funeral, she looks back at their life together. She recalls their first meeting, their joint decision not to have children, and how all they ever wanted was each other.
- After an encounter with a stranger, Maxine reflects on why same-sex couples with a child have to be asked which of them is the "real" mother.
- Celeste bursts with pride as she watches Erika head off to her prom.
- As she waits for her grandmother's flight to arrive, Chinara reflects on what the next three months have in store.
- Unsure of whether her mum can hear her, Lina gives an update on how her film was received by family and friends in Palestine, and why she rejects an outdated view on duty.
- Naomi digs deep to speak the dark thoughts she's lived with her whole life.
- Lynn's imagination runs wild as her friend drones on about being pregnant.
- At the pinnacle of her long and successful military career, Jenny, a senior Naval Officer, reflects upon the effects that cultural expectations of women, in and out of uniform, have had on her.