J.R. is a fatherless kid growing up in the glow of a bar where the bartender, his Uncle Charlie, is the sharpest as well as most colorful of an array of unusual as well as demonstrative father figures. As the young boy's established mom has a hard time to provide her child with chances rejected to her-- and leave the run-down house of her horrendous if begrudgingly helpful father-- J.R. starts to gamely, otherwise always gracefully, seek his romantic and expert dreams, with one foot persistently positioned in Uncle Charlie's bar.