Josh Bell is a high school senior who helps his single mother make ends meet by delivering meals-on-wheels every afternoon. Initially, he fails to make any particular connection with his customers. What, after all, can homebound elderly people have to say that can relate to his life? When Josh agrees to help William Davis, an 84-year old customer, record his memories, he quickly realises that any knowledge he has to offer is negligible when compared to the insight and wisdom the old man imparts to him.