Walter (Kyle Handziak) is the oldest son, who disappointed his father by becoming an insurance adjuster instead of following in his footsteps in the barbed wire business. Walter has wandered home to avoid a Christmas Eve confrontation with his unhappy wife.

He finds his younger brother Gordon (Shea King) already there, the son with unrealized “potential” who is now slurping some unusual eggnog, cradling his childhood BB gun and turning the basement into a foxhole.