When retired heart surgeon Ben Givens learns that he has terminal cancer, he takes his beloved dog back to his boyhood home in Eastern Washington, determined to end his life on his own terms. Ben's journey, though, takes an unexpected turn, and soon becomes an adventure against which he pits himself with characteristic stoicism, wit, and determination.

A decade after high school, three old classmates reconnect and reevaluate their lives while hiking a mountain in Alaska.

A down on his luck salesman takes a job working in an adult bookstore with his slacker stepbrother.