In the film, the dad's guilt is a two edged sword. The boy's mother thinks he abandoned them for his career but in fact he was running away from himself since he feared he couldn't play the role of husband and Dad since he's gay. That's the way it was 25 years ago. Then he falls in even deeper because he wants the guilt lifted from his shoulders so he goes about trying to make amends but for his own peace of mind and not the boys. And then he realizes almost too late that to fix himself he needs to be the father that the boy deserves to have. The roadblocks are many in the film. The boy starts seeing the stranger as a father figure. The father figure has sex with a young man that turns out to be the boys best friend. The son when he finds out that his best friend is in love with him and has had sex with his father figure starts questioning his sexuality and comes to the conclusion the stranger is simply using him trying to get into his pants. Then the kid believes himself broken and is near suicide. The ending I can't share with you except to say the boy does learn that the stranger is his biological father and he is dying and it does come together in the end. Does that help?
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Very very much, let me do some critical thinking and I will get back to you after my work shift. SUPER EXCITED FOR THIS.