Mild-mannered high school chemistry teacher Martin Black thinks his life can't get much worse. His salary barely makes ends meet, a situation not likely to improve once his pregnant wife gives birth, and their teenage son is battling cerebral palsy. But Martin is dumbstruck when he learns he has testicular cancer. Realizing that his illness probably will ruin his family financially, Walter makes a desperate bid to earn as much money as he can in the time he has left by turning an old backyard into a weed farm alongside his former student, Jessup Bluewoman.
