Ted (Mark Jolles) visits his divorced wife to tell her that their tormented son (John Gianopolos) has just come back from Afghanistan. Helen (Kennon Raines) a hippie left the father and their son 20 years earlier, when the boy was 9 years old. She had then moved from Bethesda to Hollywood to start a new life. But the story slowly unravels deeper into their differing politics and life choices.