 The sweet, lyrical story of Johnny Miller, an immature man in his thirties. Johnny lives with his elderly mother in a small town in California. They have a modest life that goes by the same everyday: Johnny leaves to work every morning but his job doesn t exist. He walks on the beach all day long and pretends that he s one of the men from a colorful crowd in Venice Beach. His mother pampers her son s childlike innocent imagination. The harmony ends with the mother s deadly illness. The only solution for Johnny is an institute, but at his mother s dying request a young woman, Amy Jo, takes care of Johnny. Amy Jo gives hope to Johnny that he might be able to turn his dream world into reality.