Twelve-year-old Carl is fed up with his father's single-minded pursuit of an off-the-grid existence. Dumpster-diving for food, scouring through trash for salvageable junk, and wearing clothes fully sourced from garage sales is getting old. Increasingly worried about what schoolmates and a certain girl at his new school might think of his circumstances, Carl adopts the principles set forth in a randomly discovered puppy-training pamphlet to "retrain" his dad's mindset -- a crackpot experiment that produces some very unintentional results.
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