This Boy's Life plot
"He looked like the ideal husband. He seemed like the perfect father. That's just what they needed. But that's not what they got."
Caroline Wolff and her son Toby start a new life in Seattle. There Caroline meets a polite garage owner, Dwight, who already has three children from a first marriage. They marry, but it soon becomes apparent that the man can't vent Toby, because he has a rich father, and never misses an opportunity to humiliate him. Toby and his mother try to live with the impossible situation, but Toby is unhappy and wants to run away.