 A busy, "always-on-the-run" executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father s caretaker and becomes closer to him than ever before. In the process, he teaches his father to be more independent which causes problems with the man s wife (Olympia Dukakis). Estranged from his own son, the executive comes to realize what has been missing in his own life.