It has been 12 years since Tom Brown and his friends have had a chance to hang out. Not since the "whorehouse adventure". Tom has been living in Minnesota and drives to Chicago to see his dad and get together with the old gang, Joe, Kolinski, the Greek, O'Reilly, Mary and of course, Ann.Tom's dad is now dating a black woman which is more than Tom is doing. Every one seems to have direction in life but Tom has troulble find a strong relationship.There was Florence but she became obsessed with bowling. There was Yvette but she ran away with a football player.Now Tom suddenly finds himself dating lawyers.

His dad had prostate cancer wrote a book about it and insists Tom reads chapter 14, because that is where it is at.Will Tom and Ann get back together? What could the next roadblock be?Tom still has his ironic humor and his friends in 12 years have changed or have they?Will it ever get easy?.