After his father Harry gets lost during the drive there, Brian and his father Harry hurriedly arrive at a Boy Scout camping trip led by Scoutmaster Hyatt. Brian already feels self-conscious about the fact that his father is an actor. Still, he cannot stand the thought of being late due to his father’s inability to read the xeroxed map. At the grounds, there are about thirty father-son pairs ready to go. Once everyone gets to the campgrounds, Brian greets Hyatt enthusiastically, but Harry feels animosity towards the man. Harry’s knee hurts while climbing up a hill, but he holds in the pain to keep his son happy and carefree. After eating sandwiches for lunch, Harry reads a magazine while affectionately watching his beautiful son fall asleep. In the afternoon, Harry wakes Brian up, and Hyatt calls the boys to a meeting at the pavilion. Seeing his chance to steal a drink at the local roadhouse, Harry gives in to his liquor craving and sneaks off in his car to the house. He quickly guzzles three martinis despite his vow to stay dry during the trip. After forty minutes, he returns and resumes activities with his son as they grill burgers together over a fire. 

Biran tells his father that Hyatt has invited the boys to the open bonfire and that the fathers have gathered in Marino Marcucci’s tent. 

While he sees Brian go off with the other boys, Harry enters Marcucci’s exquisite tent. He feels the tension from the other men who dislike him because “their wives truly did,” but they offer Harry a drink anyway. The men continue their conversation about the war until a man named Sullivan makes a gruff comment towards Harry for having an easy occupation where he does not “do anything” as an actor, unlike the other everyday dads. With alcohol racing through his veins, Harry gets infuriated and begins to yell back at Sullivan until Marcucci steps in. Holding in his anger, Harry leaves the tent and finds his son. The pair return to their tent and chat for a bit before Brian falls asleep. Harry looks at him lovingly and zips himself up in his sleeping back while gazing at his son with love.