When Dean comes to live with his country cousin Nate, his flimsy connections with his strange new environment unravel quickly. The tightness and warmth of this community only makes him feel more lonely. His confused search for his own place in the midst of this arid psycho-geography with all its austere beauty pushes him into wild spirals of anguish that risk his fragile new connection with Esther, a local girl. She might be the answer he's looking for. Or it might just be lost for the moment in himself.