The story follows John, a single parent to four-year-old Michael, who must make arrangements for the care of his son when he is faced with the reality of terminal illness.

To do this, he is forced to participate in a series of auditions; various potential parental pairs offer themselves, but simultaneously reveal themselves as repulsive or unsuitable.

In the final minutes of the film the father (who can no longer drive his light truck, and has sold it) and son ride a bus to the lower-middle-class home where the boy will now live; and in the film’s final seconds, John and Michael show that they have chosen the single mum as Michael's future parent.

In September 2019, it was announced that James Norton had joined the cast of the film, with Uberto Pasolini directing from a screenplay he wrote.

[4] Pasolini was inspired to write the script from a story he had read about a terminally ill father who needed to find a new family for his son before dying.