Nick, a single father, films his son Gus as he rides on a bike for the first time. While he's biking, Gus’s tire snags on a rock and sends him flying into a bush. When the father and son view the footage later, they think it’s funny, so they submit it to a TV show: America’s Funniest Home Videos. On the day of the show, Gus expresses discomfort about the recording being exposed to the public and worries about being bullied at school for it. However, Nick dismisses his son’s worries. Nick and Gus win first place on the TV show. To Nick, the attention they receive from audience members is almost a replacement for his deceased wife’s absence. Unable to find anyone with whom to share joy over Gus’s first moments, Nick finds the audience’s attention to his son the closest alternative. As the media response from Gus’s video blows up, Nick uses the online community as a support group. Gus returns home from school one day with a split lip. Nick begins to record his son’s lip to use as evidence against his son’s bullies. However, when he asks Gus to explain what happened, Gus refuses to say anything. Instead of confronting the school, Nick posts his son’s busted lip on social media. He once again uses the response from the online community as a support system. Gus receives an assignment from school to create his own movie. Nick views the movie on the school’s Youtube channel later that week. Gus's video reenacts the car crash in which his mother died. Nick is furious that something he has never heard Gus personally talk about is now available for the entire school to watch. He calls the school and asks them to take down Gus’s video. Nick briefly disengages from media interaction, but his break is short-lived. He quickly relies on the online community for support once more. When Gus finds out his video has been taken down, he expresses disappointment. As Nick talks more with Gus about the video, Gus reveals that he believes he was the reason for his mother’s death. Nick realizes that while Gus has been the reason for Nick’s happiness since his wife's death, Gus has been unhappy and feels guilt about the car accident. Both father and son begin to drown in grief. Trying to stay afloat, Nick uploads his son’s movie online. He relies on the online community again for comfort.