Mr. Weathers has retired to a small community far from the city where he lived and worked. He lost his only son on Christmas Eve years ago. He is now alone and bitter. Yet a small boy pulling a little red wagon down the main street every morning before school has his attention. Why does he work so hard? What does he hope to gain. What does he have to teach Mr. Weathers about life and death. And what terrible tragedy do the ultimately share?