Abandoned by his father at the age of five and raised in near isolation by a loving yet emotionally unstable and over-protective mother the only life Peel Munter has ever known is within the confines of his childhood home. Upon his mother's unexpected death 30-year-old Peel is left lost and utterly alone. With no job family or friends he must make a choice; live as his mother did lonely and unsettled or change the course of his impending fate by breaking out into the unknown facing the trials and tribulations of an outside world he doesn't understand. Unable to make the house payments Peel decides to take in a couple of drifters as roommates. After forging what seems to be a burgeoning new family and brotherhood one of the roommates betrays Peel's trust compelling Peel to venture out in search of his long-lost real brothers who had been taken away from him decades ago. Along the way Peel's lack of cynicism and innocence has an inadvertent yet powerful effect on those he meets as he brings a group of marginalized misfits closer to their true home.