After giving up his dreams of art school to take care of his family, Zach (Trevor Wright), finds himself caught in an endless cycle of having to look out for everyone but himself. He works dead-end jobs to help support his flaky and irresponsible sister Jeanne (Tina Holmes) and her young son Cody, and takes care of the boy while Jeanne routinely puts her needs before her child’s. Zach and his friend/girlfriend Tori have an on-again/off-again relationship, mostly off, as Zach struggles with his feelings for her. And his best friend Gabe left Zach behind to go off to college, as did most of Zach’s other friends, intensifying his feelings of isolation. In his free time he tries to find solace in surfing, drawing, and doing street art in the form of tagging.

When Gabe’s older brother Shaun (Brad Rowe) returns home to recover from a broken love affair and try to get past a case of writer’s block while he works on his next novel, he is captivated by Zach. The two have known each other for years–Shaun taught Zach and Gabe, who were much younger, to surf–but he’s been away for a long time and is struck by how the kid he knew only as his brother’s best friend has grown into such a selfless and talented young man.

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