A father and his wife, Helena, have a semi-normal routine of getting their five-year-old son, Tim, ready for school in the morning, but have trouble getting him dressed. When trying to put on Tim’s socks and shoes he throws a fit and says that his socks feel lumpy and that they don’t feel right. The two parents manage to get him out of the house that day and the father has a cigarette outside, watching as various parents seem to struggle with the same thing while taking their kids to school. As the week goes on, the father begins to notice Tim become increasingly defiant as he throws bigger and bigger tantrums each day. He and his wife struggle with Tim, but they know that they love him nevertheless. The father continues to watch the neighbors struggling with their kids, especially one mother whose five-year-old daughter says that her socks don’t feel right. The father tries to give the mother some moral support, but knows there isn’t much else he can do. By Friday of that week Tim seems perfectly fine at first, but after the father tries to get him to brush his teeth, Tim goes ballistic — causing the family to be about thirty minutes behind schedule. The father ends up hitting Tim and seething with anger. He doesn’t buckle Tim into his carseat, but realizes that he should go back and do it. As he turns back at the car he sees the struggling mother on the sidewalk with her daughter laying on the ground. Suddenly, Tim lunges out of nowhere and tackles the mother to the ground. The five-year-old girl also jumps on her mother and takes a bite out of her cheek. Across the street, the father sees another woman being attacked by young children and he also notices the bloodied body of his wife in the front seat of their car. The children turn their attention to the father who manages to stumble back into the house and locks the door just in time. Later, the father is sitting inside the house quietly and smoking a cigarette as he listens to his son stalking outside the house telling his father that he loves him, but that it just doesn’t feel right.