A 10-year-old boy and his father are travelling at night on a lonely country road. They are the only witnesses to a motorcycle crash. And so begins an understanding in the boy of how adult men behave.
What is it to be a man, a husband, a father, a son, a lover? Seven men from very different backgrounds meet each week to laugh, cry, have it out and come to terms with the issues in their lives.
When a young boy's beloved dog falls critically ill, the boy's father offers to take him to the circus to cheer him up. The boy dreams of the circus and wakes up in a radically different frame of mind.