Nearly 20 years have passed. Malcolm has built a life far away from chaos. He runs a charity, has a daughter, and maintains the distance he always needed from the family that nearly consumed him. He has a girlfriend and for the first time in his life, things are looking great.

Then Hal and Lois show up at his door demanding his presence at their 40th wedding anniversary. Malcolm cannot say no. With Leah and Tristan in tow, he is pulled back into the orbit he spent years escaping, and everything he thought he had put behind him comes back at once.

The chaos, the noise, the particular brand of love the Wilkerson family has always expressed badly: none of it went anywhere while he was gone. The four episodes remember why he left and slowly remind him why family, in all its dysfunction, never quite lets you walk away.