This home movie documents the daily lives and activities of the Sam Riley family including vacations. The film begins with a family vacation to Charleston, South Carolina. Footage includes the "Bill Bom's Canoe Country Outfitters" storefront, men and women fishing from boats, a garden, a lighthouse, the exterior of a home, a bear, the grave of John Caldwell Calhoun, and Eugene Graham's Deep Sea Fishing building. Footage also includes women buying bananas at a market in an unidentified city (08:01-08:47). The film ends with the family at home celebrating a birthday (08:47-09:33), children playing outdoors (09:33-10:08), men fishing (10:08-11:24) and children playing in the snow (11:24-12:16).

Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.