Abandoned by his father at the age of five and raised in near isolation by a loving, yet emotionally unstable and over-rotective mother, the only life Peel Munter has ever known is within the confines of his childhood home. Uon his mother#39;s unexected death, 30-year-old Peel is left lost and utterly alone. With no job, family, or friends, he must make a choice; live as his mother did, lonely and unsettled, or change the course of his imending fate by eaking out into the unknown, facing the trials and tribulations of an outside world he doesn#39;t understand. Unable to make the house ayments, Peel decides to take in a coule of drifters as roommates. After forging what seems to be a burgeoning new family and otherhood, one of the roommates betrays Peel#39;s trust, comelling Peel to venture out in search of his long-lost, real others who had been taken away from him decades ago. Along the way, Peel#39;s lack of cynicism and innocence has an inadvertent, yet owerful effect on those he meets, as he ings a grou of marginalized misfits closer to their true home.