Gingerbread Men, tells the story of Jess, a recovering alcoholic woman who lives alone on a small, isolated farm. Jess is traumatised because she feels responsible for an accident that crippled her young son Ben. Jess never forgave herself for not preventing the accident, and her internal torment drove her to drink heavily. Eventually her husband, David, kicked her out of the family home and Jess fled to the country. She has not seen Ben or David since. In the back-story, before the film begins, Jess employs Tony, an itinerant farm labourer, to build her an organic vegetable garden. Unbeknown to Jess, Tony is also traumatised by a tragic event in his past. Tony and his younger sister were driving home from a party one night. Tony had had too much to drink. Some young people were racing cars along back streets. As Tony drove around a bend, he saw two cars bearing down upon him. Tony swerved to avoid them, but in doing so crashed into a tree, killing his sister. After the police investigation Tony's parents disowned him, and he left home a disgraced and broken man. Gingerbread Men begins when Tony arrives at Jess's farm to commence building the vegetable garden. When these two sad and lonely figures come together, their personality clash sets in chain a series of emotionally confronting events that ultimately leads Jess to confront her past and reach out for a brighter future.
—Michael Sergi