體育記者喬沃爾(克萊夫歐文 飾)的妻子不幸罹病過世,他因而被迫扛起獨自撫養兩個孩子的責任,與前妻生的大兒子正值叛逆青春期,小兒子則年僅六歲,兩個男孩與一個大男人該如何面對這突如其來的打擊?
為了讓這個家重現往日的歡笑,身為新手單親爸爸的喬對孩子們有求必應,在這個沒有紀律、沒有任何規則的家,他們學著面對生活與處理家庭瑣事,對彼此的愛讓父子三人重新找到成長的力量與生命的方向,時而歡樂時而令人鼻酸的種種過程,將在所有觀眾心中注入一陣陣感動的暖流!
When Simon Carr’s wife, Susie, tragically loses her battle with cancer, Simon is left to raise his five-year-old son, Alexander, on his own. Soon after, his eleven-year-old son from a previous marriage, Hugo, comes to live with them too. All too quickly, plumped-up cushions, crisp beds and a drifting scent of rosemary from the kitchen are replaced with a floor piled high with video-games, Lego® and comics. While visiting mothers deem his parenting ‘semi-feral’, Simon dryly retorts that his methods are simply ‘free-range’.In this new all-male partnership, Simon faces the challenges of parenthood unaided, as father and sons alike learn to become a family again. Carr’s emotionally honest, compellingly anarchic and sharply comic story of a single parent’s struggle is at once heartbreaking and wonderfully life-affirming.