A teen age boy, after being kicked out of two houses in the deep Christian south, flees North to his beloved agnostic uncle who has moved into a new house where he hopes his estranged wife will return to him.

In the Northeast a man buys a new house to save his damaged marriage just as his beloved nephew arrives from the South with a crisis which opens up years of repressed grief and calls into immediate action a death bed promise. North and South - Christian and agnostic - past and future collide in this poignant human comedy of good intentions and difficult decisions.