A struggling comic book artist, who is developing a new story about a vigilante dinosaur, spends his nights stalking the streets of LA in an inflatable dinosaur costume, trying to fight crime himself. But when he finds out his son's killer is up for parole, he must relieve the loss while also attempting to keep the killer from getting out.

Watching the love of his life dying out of a terminal and painful illness, Mike slowly grows to make a decision to end her suffering.

In the near future a family must make difficult decisions as they balance staying together with trying to survive. They live in Los Angeles, which has been occupied by a force of outside intruders. While some people have chosen to collaborate with the authorities and benefit from the new order, others have rebelled — and suffer the consequences.

The Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan is a wonderfully large and blended family. They give us an honest and often hilarious look into the sometimes warm, sometimes twisted, embrace of the modern family.