 Joey lives with his mother. His father isn t around, he doesn t like school, he is bored and doesn t take orders from anyone. In other words he is a real little scamp. Being at one s wit s end, his mother decides to look for a "big brother" (sort of surrogate father) for Joey. At first this clumsy Arnie doesn t know how to handle Joey but after a while everything changes and not only for Joey ...