Maggie, a mother of two, has a mentally ill child named Christopher. He gets into a fight with the neighbor’s kid, and Maggie dreams about how she and her husband Howard could have had a different baby. Maggie wanted a large family initially, but grew hesitant after she gave birth to Christopher and saw how he turned out. Howard eventually convinced her to have more kids by insisting that their other children would be normal. Chris tries to restrain himself around his little sister, Jody, but he pushes her. However, Jody is patient and does not react negatively to this. Howard wants to take Christopher with him to Washington D.C. on his business trip to see the Smithsonian museums, but Maggie refuses. Maggie and Jody walk Christopher to school. Along the way, he gets into a fight with some school boys. Afterward, Maggie follows Christopher inside to make sure that he is cleaned up, but she loses sight of him. Eventually, she finds his classroom and watches him through the window. He is fine for a while, but then he has an outburst in class. During the chaos, students try to gang up on him and one boy puts his foot on Christopher’s neck. After everything settles down, Christopher sits down quietly, dead inside. Maggie realizes how badly everyone treats him.