Sixteen-year-old Chris Boyd has always felt like a social outcast. He's scruffy and depressed, misses his dead father, and despises his mother. Now he and his mother, a live-in nurse, find themselves in a dilapidated old house where Mrs. Boyd cares for a dying lady, Mrs. Dipardi. As if that's not enough, Chris must deal with Mrs. Dipardi's 30-year-old misfit son, Lloyd, who wants to teach kids a thing or two about life. Can Chris shake Lloyd's influence and come up with the answers he needs for himself?