Football hero Peter "The Plum" Lum is diagnosed with a brain disorder. But hiding the truth isn't easy when your ex-wife cares too much, and your son realises the father he worships is falling off his mantle.
Plum's ex-wife Renee is the only one aware of his dire medical prognosis but she's urging him to share it. Hiding from the truth gets harder when Gavin's grand final turns brutal and Plum realises what he is handing down.
After a shift at the poetry club, Plum takes his family to Melbourne for a meeting about Gavin's playing future. But the son remains angry about what happened at his big game, and a family fight finds Plum and Renee in bed.
Plum's pain brings out the old habits, but this time he finds rock bottom, just in time to write a letter to his own father.
Plum takes Gavin and Charmayne home to the country for his mother's 75th but it's hot and the prawns aren't the only things that turn.
Peter Lum becomes a poet in front of his loved ones and peace comes to his soul just in time.
