House of D

Tom Warshaw is an American artist who has been living in Paris for 30 years. He quietly leads a troubled existence, something that his French wife Coralie Warshaw can see without knowing the source of that trouble, which is negatively affecting their son Odell. On Odell's 13th birthday, Tom decides to come clean to his family about his past, and the source of that trouble, which started when he himself was 13. At the time in 1973, he, young Tommy, lived with his unconventional working-class mother, Katherine Warshaw, in Greenwich Village, and she wasn't coping well after Tommy's father's death.She rested all her hopes on Tommy, who was attending a private Catholic boys' school on a scholarship; his best friend there was the school's mentally-challenged janitor, Pappass, who helped him with his part-time job as delivery boy for a local butcher. They saved their money in a hidden box to buy a bike. The hiding location lead to Tommy meeting, faceless through barred windows, a female convict who called herself Lady; she became his confidante in all matters, especially Tommy's crush on wealthy Melissa Loggia, who attended his school's sister school. Within this world, something happened that tore apart Tommy's life.