Alan, a trust-fund twenty-something activist and proud malcontent opens a Native American themed coffee shop on tribal land with his life partner believing that he himself is a quarter Navajo. His life is thrown into turmoil when he finds out that he is white. Alan's father comes into town at his lowest point, Pane, casts a long shadow over the family, as dominating player in the retail construction business. He offers to help Alan in a bargain that turns out extremely lop-sided. Beam decides that their life-partnership needs some alterations. She marries the real Navajo who sold them the store; Alan's journey just keeps getting worse. Alan gets over his daddy issues in a last great act of revenge and 'self-discovery.'