Komična zgodba o moškem, ki bi moral že zdavnaj odrasti.Komična drama o 35-letnem Newyorčanu Morrisu Blissu, ki se ne more premakniti z mesta. Želi potovati, a nima denarja. Potrebuje službo, a nima ustreznih kvalifikacij. Še vedno živi pri svojem ovdovelem očetu in, kar je morda najhuje, zaradi mamine prezgodnje smrti, ki je ni prebolel, je ostal čustveno zaprt. Ko se zaplete v nenavadno razmerje z 18-letno hčerko nekdanjega sošolca, pa spozna, da se mu, čeprav njegovo življenje drvi v prepad, odpirajo poti, na katere bi moral že zdavnaj zakorakati.
A comedy/drama about 35-year-old Morris Bliss, who is clamped in the jaws of New York City inertia: he wants to travel but has no money; he needs a job but has no prospects; he still shares an apartment with his widowed father; and perhaps worst of all the premature death of his mother still lingers and has left him emotionally walled up. When he finds himself wrapped up in an awkward relationship with the sexually precocious, 18-year-old daughter of a former classmate, Morris quickly discovers his static life unraveling and opening up in ways that are long overdue.