Failing to make it on his own, 27-year-old Jim moves back in with his parents and deals with crippling family obligations.

A young man goes to prison and a tough, older convict takes him under his wing as a mentor.

Tommy has lost his job, his love and his life. He lives in a small apartment above the Trees Lounge, a bar which he frequents along with a few other regulars without lives. He gets a job driving an ice cream truck and ends up getting involved with the seventeen-year-old niece of his ex-girlfriend. This gets him into serious trouble with her father.