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

H. Maximiliani: Following his prayer, opening his eyes, he sees the screened-in patio is weak with light. The City Man is nothing more than a shadow on the sofa. Although it’s two o’clock in the morning, crickets chirp wildly, enjoying night. Isaac is bare-chested and breathing. His chest is slick with sweat; nipples dotted with liquid orbs; stomach slowly rises and falls, silky looking with a shiny film of night’s perspiration. The picture of his son unmoving at his side, H. reaches forward with an outstretched finger, collects sweat from one of the City Man’s ribs, and caresses the fingers against his lips, tasting sticky syrup of sleep, falling under his stayover’s spell, lightheaded with his passion found—his pleasure. 


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