A toy bear who wants a pocket for himself searches for one in a laundromat.

A young man aspiring to be a writer but struggling with insecurities and direction in his life takes a job at a Boston homeless shelter where he unexpectedly discovers his father, an ex-convict and self-proclaimed poet.

Lawrence Wetherhold is a recently widowed literature professor who is a numb and chilly intellectual. He rebuffs his students, ignores his own teenage children, James and Vanessa, and spurns cries for financial assistance from his ne'er-do-well but rather soulful adopted brother, Chuck. After an accident and Lawrence goes to the hospital, he is deprived of the right to drive. Janet is a physician and former student of Lawrence who remembers her disappointment...