David, a struggling comedy writer fresh off from breaking up with his boyfriend, moves from New York City to Sacramento to help his sick mother. Living with his conservative father and much-younger sisters for the first time in ten years, he feels like a stranger in his childhood home. As his mother’s health declines, David frantically tries to extract meaning from this horrible experience and convince everyone (including himself) that he's "doing okay.”
Keywords: alienation , california , cancer , cancer-treatment , death , dying , dying-mother , dysfunctional-family , family-relationships , gay-theme , lgbt , misfit , return-home , sacramento , semi-autobiographical , terminal-illness