Famed Canadian-American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife was one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Now in his late seventies, Fife is dying of cancer in Montreal and has agreed to a final interview in which he is determined to bare all his secrets at last, to demythologize his mythologized life.
As a patriarchal family yearn for the birth of a baby boy to continue their family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theatre and falls for a transgender starlet.
Recently divorced Abigail arrives right in the midst of her parents' chaotic antics. After a lifetime of dysfunctional hilarity, the family – accompanied by an estranged brother – find it within themselves to embrace for one final goodbye.