A successful writer living in LA is summoned home to Queens by his mother when his father becomes seriously ill. As he finds himself forced to confront the childhood events that shaped him, we meet an unforgettable cast of characters living through a sweltering 1986 summer in New York. This bittersweet return to a neighbourhood where relationships can never be what they once were boils down to coming to terms with misplaced love, reconciling with family, and embracing the ghosts of one s past.