 Follows a precocious, eleven-year-old Allan, who tries desperately to keep his dysfunctional, rural family together during the social upheavals of the early seventies. Allan reveres his father, Henry, the local milkman, and can t understand why others don t feel the same way. His family life is so twisted he thinks it s perfectly normal to stay awake all night dealing with his father s hysterics and suicidal threats. Allan s older brother left town several years ago, and his mother gave up long before that, relying on sleeping pills to escape Henry s tantrums. Allan then becomes obsessed with a rival family, whom he considers foolish white trash until they start taking away Henry s customers. He is frustrated that his mother doesn t take his father s complaints seriously, and is perplexed by the increasingly rebellious and bizarre behavior of his sister, Sanne. Incapable of understanding what s going on and heavily influenced by his father, Allan commits appalling acts, unaware of their import.