The King of Staten Island

Going nowhere fast, and burdened with traumatic memories, the depressed twenty-four-year-old layabout, Scott Carlin, still hasn't come to terms with the loss of his brave father, who lost his life on duty as a firefighter. Living for today, under the same roof with his overworked nurse mum, Margie, in New York's Staten Island, Scott leads a sluggish and uneventful life devoid of responsibility, and his only ambition is to become a tattoo artist. However, everything will take an unexpected turn when his mother, after seventeen long years, falls in love and starts dating Ray: a moustachioed single parent, who, just like his dead dad, is a fireman. Can Scott figure out how to let go of the painful past, and move on?