Max is a remarkable eight-year-old boy whose imagination and clumsy feet keep him in trouble. Max doesn't mean to forget he's grounded when he wanders off to follow the wind or a whim, he just forgets. Livy loves her son, but doesn't have a clue as to how to cultivate the magic that lies within her child. By trying to keep him safe from broken bones she crushes his flights of imagination. In trying to make him like other little boys, she fights against what makes him special -- his uniqueness. His father shares the same uniqueness. So when Max unknowingly brings his father home, after almost nine years of leaving Livy, his mother must confront the magic her son and former lover share, accepting the past and her own vulnerabilities.