JR is a fatherless boy growing up in the glow of a bar where the bartender, his Uncle Charlie, is the sharpest and most colorful of an assortment of quirky and demonstrative father figures. As the boyÔÇÖs determined mother struggles to provide her son with opportunities denied to her ÔÇö and leave the dilapidated home of her outrageous if begrudgingly supportive father ÔÇö JR begins to gamely, if not always gracefully, pursue his romantic and professional dreams, with one foot persistently placed in Uncle CharlieÔÇÖs bar.
