"I told him boy's don't skip--
one's that ain't queer, anyway. Now.
That stopped'em skippin', sure'nough."
Oakenrush Scott, an agnostic young man brought home from college to care for his ailing mother, betrays his longtime companion by searching for solace in the arms of another. When comfort proves illusive and, at times, agonizing, issues of spirituality and sexuality become the shaky context of an unexamined life.
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