After being raised in the wilderness, a teenage girl moves to the city hoping for a normal life with her anything but normal mother.

Desperate to get her life back to normal after a surprisingly uncommon medical diagnosis, Ashley Jones is forced to examine what "normalcy" really means in a world of mistaken identities, very old, old friends, and poisoned meatballs.

Durant la première vague de décès causés par l'épidémie du sida, un écrivain new-yorkais devient une des figures de proue dans la lutte pour les droits les gais.