 When Jack Scanlan passes away just before telling his son, Johnny what was really important in life, Johnny begins to wonder if he s let life pass him by. With the funeral as backdrop, all the Scanlans appear, each with an interesting situation. One of Johnny s sisters is divorced but hasn t told anyone, the sister who is a nun is now into liberation theology and has an illegal immigrant with her, and Tony is fighting for control of his father s union. Johnny and Terry (the divorced sister) both think that they may have found true love in the chaos (though what Johnny s wife thinks of it is up for grabs) as Johnny tries to make some kind of sense out of the various strains in his family.