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.

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

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

During a Boy Scout camping trip, a father and son find some bonding time. The father particularly finds solace in the intimacy he feels towards his son during the increased interaction.

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 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.

A middle-aged man tells his son the story of how he once killed a man while driving when he was younger, and another about how his first wife—his wife before son's mother that the son knew nothing about—suddenly passed away.

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

A nine-year-old boy reflects on the heroes he's identified in his life, from religious figures to his relatives, while he and his father drive home on a snowy night.