The story of an aspiring young filmmaker's encounter with a grumpy fount of movie lore.

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

Life’s good for deliveryman Doug Heffernan, until his newly widowed father-in-law, Arthur, moves in with him and his wife Carrie. Doug is no longer the king of his domain, and instead of having a big screen television in his recently renovated basement, he now has a crazy old man.