After retiring from his career in construction and trying to cope with the death of his wife, Isaac York experiences an infatuation for a lifelong male friend and discovers his world fills with sunflowers and a risqué transition. Isaac moves to Lake Samoy in search of a new life, to abandon his past, and to start a fresh relationship with a famous and sexy man named Nebraska Close, whom he falls head over heals for.<br><br>Nebraska Close, a professional photographer who is drawn to summer nights and a younger man’s skin, finds pleasure for a second time in his life. Unconditionally he falls for Isaac and mixes together his lust, photography of sunflowers, and homosexual longing.<br><br>Isaac's son, Nicholas, lives at Lake Samoy and doesn't understand his father's lack of interest in his mother's fatal illness. With the help of Nebraska Close, Nicholas confronts his father’s sexuality, and Isaac learns to love his son again.

Nebraska Close

While visiting him in late June with Independence Day just days away, the both of us became drunk and decided to fish at the lake’s edge. A day I will never forget: sunny and bright with a just a hint of exultant wind, storybook perfect with robins and deer, a whippoorwill somewhere, a woodpecker above the cabin in an oak’s treetop. My father said to me, “I hope you understand why I wanted you to come alone. It’s not that I don’t like Carla and Lock…I merely wanted us to be here as father and son. Like when you were a boy.” 


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