Chris Harrison suffers from low self-esteem, due mainly from the treatment by his father (now left), his mother, and his stammer (and what he considers his big ears ). He has a job as a builders laborer and the other workers tend to make fun of him. It is only when they visit the flooded house of an author, Ken Spiller, and they talk about his ruined books that Chris confesses that he would like to write. Ken encourages him and Chris takes Ken's dog,...