本故事讲述的是上世纪90年代末发生在陕西关中农村的童年故事。在以成绩高低作为评判学生好坏的环境中，小学生巴王超过在老师与家长的眼中是那种不学无术的“渣滓”。得不到家长和老师认同的巴王超过，将田野里一棵可以栖息的大树变成了自己的“好地方”，并将所有“好玩”的东西都藏在了那棵大树的上面。孩子的天性，让巴王超过与成人世界充满了斗争，直到有一天，他的处境因为前来支教的粉提老师而改变了！粉提老师让他负责班级里的图书管理员，同时他也与女老师成了好朋友，他的“好地方”也成了女老师的“好地方”。然而好景不长，他在粉提老师面前特殊的待遇，又因为粉提老师的男朋友的到来而改变了……

2016 film directed by Hirokazu Koreeda

本书对美国从遗嘱到信托的财产继承法律演变过程，从社会史视角进行研究，揭示了形式主义规则的衰落、遗嘱替代品（如信托）的崛起、社会改变（例如有影响力家族的崛起）、对可接受的继承人范围和观念的改变、遗产税的潜在影响被化解等因素，在财富的平衡方面发挥了重要作用。

Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning he wakes up in bed lying next to Kate, his college sweetheart he left in order to pursue his career, and to the horrifying discovery that his former life no longer exists. As he stumbles through this alternate suburban universe, Jack finds himself at a crossroad where he must choose between his high-power career and the woman he loves.

A story centered around a divorced couple living in a southern Chinese city Shenzhen and dealing with the disappearance of their missing son.

Aidan Bloom, a struggling actor, father and husband, is 35 years old and still trying to find a purpose for his life. He and his wife are barely getting by financially and Aidan passes his time by fantasizing about being the great futuristic Space-Knight he'd always dreamed he'd be as a little kid. When his ailing father can no longer afford to pay for private school for his two kids and the only available public school is on its last legs, Aidan reluctantly agrees to attempt to home-school them. Through teaching them about life his way, Aidan gradually discovers some of the parts of himself he couldn't find.

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.

2010 film by Gregorio Muro

2011 film by Lynne Ramsay

The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows.