In a small Ohio town during the early sixties, Angus Roy Murphy, a lonely young misfit, struggles to learn more about his physically imposing, enigmatic Irish grandfather, Theodore Thomas Nunn. Despite the closeness between the two, a dark, impenetrable distance exists, and Angus becomes obsessed with finding the truth about Nunn’s closely guarded past. Tragedy strikes, and he slowly begins to pry secrets from his profane and wily Uncle Bo, but not without shocking results.