Meet Dave Spritz, Chicago's most popular weatherman and minor celebrity. Professionally he's on top of the world but his personal life is a mess. Failing father of two and frustated son of a famous writer, Spritz is poised on a knife edge between stability and disaster. Faced with the chance of hitting the big time in New York he goes on a soul-searching mission to reunite his family, but the more he tries to take control, the more he finds that life, like the weather, is completely unpredictable.