Eighteen year old Ralph finds refuge in the elaborate sanctuary of his own imagination in order to escape his broken family and the unhappiness of his life in a small Nebraskan town. Slowly losing touch with reality, Ralph meets Bryen, another kindred spirit, who politely offers him a long-overdue reason to remain tethered to the earth. As the year unfolds their friendship rapidly develops into an intimate bond that will prove vital to carry them through the unpleasant tribulations ahead. When an unsettling mystery gradually unravels itself through Ralph's malignant daydreams and and in the foreboding, eerie notes of a bittersweet melody, they soon find themselves not only fighting against the often violent prejudices of the town but also unknowingly caught up in the malevolent presence of a long forgotten tragedy rising between them...
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