When Maxwell's father wanted him to give up his dream of being a songwriter and embrace a life of conventional responsibility, he did. Years later, after his father's death, Maxwell is no less in thrall by him. And after being visited by a talking animal in a dream, he becomes convinced that he must fulfill his father's last wish - the saving of a habitat for a rare species of the North American Sloth. He enlists his brother and sister to help raise money and, after the trio discover a trove of paintings secretly created by their late father over his final years, he returns to songwriting as a means to bring attention to their cause. But just as the siblings are becoming closer and Maxwell is growing freer, his obsession over being the son his father wanted threatens to destroy the whole endeavor. Songs for a Sloth is a film about the struggle to be both the person we want to be and the person we feel responsible to be. It's also about literal dreams, a talking sloth, paintball, live.