Scott has been an arrested developmental case since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He has now reached his mid-20s and accomplished little, pursuing a dream of becoming a tattoo artist that seems out of reach. While his ambitious younger sister goes off to college, Scott still lives with his exhausted ER nurse mother and spends his days smoking pot, hanging out with the boys, Oscar, Igor, and Richie, and secretly with his childhood friend Kelsey. But when his mother begins dating a noisy firefighter named Ray, it sets off a series of events that will force Scott to deal with his grief and take his first tentative steps forward in life.