loss (psychology)

Sarah struggles to come to terms with her best friend Jamie's accidental death, in which she played a role, and is having problems at home, at school, and with her boyfriend. But she gains an understanding of interconnectedness while working for Roy, an eccentric Christmas tree-farm owner dealing with his own tragedy.

After the death of her husband, Rocky Pelligrino begins to rebuild her life and finds stability with an adoring black Lab, a possible new romance, a new home, and a new job. But when a young woman contacts her, looking for information about her biological father, Rocky realizes there may be more to her husband than she ever realized, and worries her life will be thrown into turmoil once more.

With her mother stationed in Iraq as an Army nurse, Vanderbilt University student Arden Vogel, whose father was killed in a traffic accident a few years earlier, impulsively ends up on a tour of Europe with a group of college girls she meets on her way to attend to some family business in Sardinia.

On separate trips, Ernest and Magdalene discover their true thoughts about their families and begin to think about them and the past mistakes of their parents.

Three sisters deal with tragedy after the oldest, Elv, who was sexually abused by a stranger as a child, succumbs to drug addiction and a mental breakdown, the middle sister, Meg, falls ill, and the youngest, Claire, tries to cope with her feelings of guilt over what happened to Elv.

Chronicles the story of four people who are still wrestling with sorrow fifteen years after a school shooting incident occurred in their sleepy suburban town.

Maya Lange, owner of the Red Thread Adoption Agency, guides six sets of prospective parents through the process of adopting Chinese children, and through the journey they confide to her while she confronts the loss of her infant daughter in a freak accident.