For thirty years, guilt and resentment has held together the relationship of Michael and his father, Albert, with whom he still lives in the family home. When Michael starts a relationship with his boss Valerie and struggles with intimacy, he blurts out a secret he has not revealed to anyone outside his family in decades. Learning that Michael was sexually abused as a child, Valerie rejects him and pushes an already volatile Michael into confronting his past and the part which Albert played in it.