A story of a young, biracial boy who moves to Ireland in the '90s. He shaves off his Afro in order to fit in and it works...but then his Afro grows back, bigger and bigger, until it traps him in his room and he has to find a way out.

The thorny relationship between a woman and her retired father worsens after he becomes romantically involved with the housekeeper she hires for him.