South of Topanga

In his midsixties and with a terminal cancer prognosis, Gary becomes obsessed with not having had sons. With his wife away on a trip, he unofficially adopts young, twenty-four-year-old Michael, looking to him for salvation. Independent Michael, willing to help, becomes caught in Gary's increasingly unreasonable demands.

Meanwhile, Gary's wife, Hannah, has come to a private decision about her marriage. She returns home to find Michael in the center of her husband's life, a mountain of debts, ...