A socially-awkward, 11-year-old boy is forced to live for a year in the Mason’s home after his mother gets dumped by her loser husband. 

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Winner Jury Award at Nova Film Festival. Winner BEST UNPRODUCED SCRIPT at Fusion Film International London. Winner FINALIST at Cosmic Film Festival. Winner Best Drama at the Dallas International Cinema Awards. NOMINATED for BEST SCREENPLAY at Big Bear Film Summit. Top 100 DRAMA at Table Read My Screenplay contest. 2nd Rounder in Launch Pad Screenplay contest. Nominated Best Unproduced screenplay at Phoenix Film Shorts. Best Feature Length Screenplay award at Fame Factor Awards. Runner up BEST DRAMA at Action on Film Festival. Official selection in Go Indie DC film festival. Official Selection in the Tokyo International Cinema Awards Film Festival. Official Selection in the Southern California International Film Festival

Set in the backwater town of Bedford, Texas in 1979, Stephen a socially awkward, asthmatic, 11-year-old boy, lives precariously with his mother, Patricia, and sister, Sharon. The 3 musketeers. Stephen, who was born 3 months premature, has crooked-teeth and is extremely short. He is obsessed with pop star Olivia Newton-John after seeing "Grease."

One night, at a sleazy bar, his mother meets the man of her dreams, Ken, who is a loose cannon Viet Nam vet. What the hell? Love is blind. In a whirl-wind romance, they get married much to the dismay of her dysfunctional, white-trash family.

All is NOT well in paradise, Ken, as a new step-father, has zero parenting skills and treats the 2 new children like a drill sergeant. Patricia goes along with it because she wants a father for her kids. Yelling and screaming are the daily diet followed by a dish of ice cream to lessen the guilt.

After 3 months, Ken announces he's leaving Patricia while packing his clothes into garbage sacks. Patricia begs and pleads for him to stay, but he walks out the door leaving her and the kids high and dry. Patricia, pregnant, is forced to get an abortion and a job. She must also figure out what to do with her kids.

Her mother, Tiger, will not take them, so with the help of her Shriner grandfather, she attempts to enroll them in the Mason's home for widows and orphans. There is only one problem! After taking a series of tests: Stephen is admitted, but Sharon is allowed to live at Tiger's house.

Stephen, completely uprooted, lands smack dab into the Mason's home "the island of misfit toys" and thus begins his odyssey of missing a year from his life.