Plot Summary:Pete "Skag" Skagska is a 56-year-old union foreman of a Pittsburgh steel mill until a crippling stroke forces him to stay home and try to put his life back together and deal with family problems including his younger second wife Jo; his three children: 24-year-old David who worked at the steel mill, shy and insecure 18-year-old Patricia, and rebellious 15-year-old Barbara; and his own father Petar, living with them after his own major stroke.