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

My father came south for Lock’s funeral; he stayed for almost forty-eight hours. At the funeral home, he hugged Carla and whispered into her left ear, “You were a good mother. This isn’t your fault.” He whispered in my ear, “You were a loving and devoted father. Don’t blame yourself when destiny fucks you over.” And following the funeral, as expected, he fled north again, stunned by his grandson’s death, overwhelmed, changed, incapable of understanding the demise of an infant and the strength of a higher power called God. 


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