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.

In an epistolary-like work, a father must choose between a job he loves and his relationship with his son.

A boy rides along in his father's truck, but when he breaks his father's only rule—don't touch anything—by turning on the radio, he hears another trucker threatening the safety of his father.

After he gets divorced, a father finds renewed purpose through his role as a single parent and the precious time he spends with his children.

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

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 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 father attempts to bond with his thirteen-year-old son, who recently came out to him, on a Florida spa trip. When the boy is heckled at a restaurant, the father struggles against succumbing to violent urges.