Eugene is turning 70; his son Jim is turning 40. They’ve been living together in good-natured bachelor harmony all this time, but something has got to give. Eugene Duffy spent his life running a little hardware shop in a small town. It was a quiet existence, even before he retired. His wife finally walked out on him almost twenty-five years ago, leaving him to look after two moody teenagers alone.  Those moody teenagers are moody grown-ups now. Jim is very much single and still lives at home. He’s hasn’t had a girlfriend in years and doesn’t seem interested in acquiring one.  As the milestones approach, Eugene decides it’s time for drastic measures and throws himself into the task of finding his son a wife.  But Jim isn’t the one who needs help. Eugene is. Turning 70 is having a funny effect on him. And that’s before Una shows up out of the blue, bearing news … Duffy and Son is a comedy about a family struggling with its past and trying to find a future.