New York City, 1957. Lionel Essrog, a private detective living with Tourette syndrome, tries to solve the murder of his mentor and best friend, armed only with vague clues and the strength of his obsessive mind.
A group of queer best friends gather in the Fire Island Pines for their annual week of love and laughter. However, desires, dramas, drink and drugs push their bonds to the limits.
When a sweet and quirky grad student falls for a street-tough stockbroker on New Year's Eve, it takes twenty years of ups and downs, ins and outs to discover why. And to discover that, just maybe, they're not so different after all.
