When Warren's verbally abusive mother throws Warren, his wife and two teenage children out of her house after he drunkenly urinates in the kitchen sink, he insists that the family live in the old wooden shed in the back yard. He believes he is providing his family with the necessities of life: a roof over their heads, one hot meal per day-purchased with food stamps and clothing, which is worn and sparse. The hostile resentment his family expresses does not convince Warren that he is not the good provider he believes himself to be. Instead, he whines about not receiving the respect and appreciation he feels they owe him as the head of the household and man of the house. The situation only gets worse after his agoraphobic sister dives out a second story window, his son attempts suicide and his mother is gruesomely murdered.