A series of vignettes about various sons along a family tree.

At a Blues Festival, a fourteen-year-old boy talks to his father for the first time but does not reveal who he is.

Sometime during the 20th century, two young boys wake up excitedly on a Florida day with the hope of seeing their estranged father, unaware of how reality will not meet their expectations.

In an attempt to impress his emotionally distant father, a boy ridicules his mother, who has loved him unconditionally even in his father's absence. Wracked with guilt, he yearns for her forgiveness - only to find that she does not hold it against him.

A father tells his twenty-year-old son how he was married suddenly to his son's mother at a young age.

A father contemplates whether he should kiss his son on the lips when saying good night.

A man reflects on his complicated summers with his father.

A son tells a series of stories, most of them about his father and stepfather. As the son describes a robbery that took place at his house in high school and his experiences with his father, a former Jehovah's Witness and current alcoholic, he begins to recall details from his childhood.

A family finds out that their father was sent on a train from Florida to New York by himself when he was five years old, and one of the sons thinks this event explains his father's strict and grumpy demeanor in response to his children's playful antics.

In a 20th century American town, a young man spies on a decisive duel between his neighbor and her son.