It's been a year since Walden Schmidt (Ashton Kutcher), lovelorn billionaire, purchased the Malibu beach house where tightly-wound Alan Harper (Jon Cryer) and his slacker teenage son, Jake (Angus T. Jones), had been living. Invited to remain, Alan found himself mentoring Walden in the ways of women and, together with Jake, adjusted to their new home, making each of them a better man.