After running off to the United States and failing to make anything of himself, a boy returns home to the gritty industrial island of Cape Breton, Canada, to face his mentally-deteriorating father.

Wally Olynyk (Stefan Wodoslawsky) returns home to the Cape Breton region of Nova Scotia in this somber drama. After years of living in Los Angeles, he hopes to attend his high-school reunion and visit with his father Stan (Jan Rubes). Stan is the local mortician who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, but the 63-year-old father is too stubborn to admit anything is wrong. The contrast between Los Angeles and the grim Canadian steel town clashes like the father and son.—Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide