When the mother of his infant son unexpectedly passes away, struggling actor Mark grapples with fatherhood and his inability to grow up. And when he sparks with a single mother, he learns how his choices have real-life consequences.

We look towards American independent cinema for modest human stories unexpectedly told. Mark Webber’s Sundance competitor, in which he stars with his real-life son, is an intimate evocation of single parenthood when that parent is a man—hardly an uncommon occurrence but so rarely seen on-screen.