Matthew Fifer

A young journalist returns home to investigate unsolved deaths at an abandoned psychiatric center. As he dances with the shadows of his past, and a mysterious new man in his life, his family’s history and the town's secrets begin to converge.

Ben is a young bisexual man. He comes out to the world and develops an intense relationship with Sam, a man of color struggling with deep wounds of his own. As the summer progresses and their intimacy grows, Ben's past crawls to the surface.

The story of three friends who shotgun South and meet the "real America."