The film tells the story of a 15-year-old boy, Ellis (Graham Phillips), who left his eccentric and "new age" mother Wendy (Vera Farmiga) to go to prep school from his hometown in the Southwest to the East Coast. the teenager embarked on a journey of life. Ellis's estranged father Frank (Ty Burrell) is the former star student of that prep school, which means that Ellis will have a real and new understanding of his father. "Goat Man", a smoker (David Duchoney), is Frank's buddy (the herding effect on campus). His confused experience in prep school contrasts with Ellis's ideas and affects the teenager's way of life.