Jerry McKenzie is a reclusive and antisocial artist, quite content to trip his horses and work in his studio room, keeping to himself. It’s not any kind of life for a child, so when Jerry finds out he’s been named his orphaned nephew’s guardian, he panics. He doesn’t know what regarding a child and isn’t sure he can give William the affection and the like the boy therefore desperately needs.

Then Jerry meets David Loewenberger, the new teacher William becomes immediately attached to, and he starts to observe how they will make a family together: a family to replace the one William lost, a family David had given up on ever finding… a family Jerry never knew he wanted.