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

Catching my father and the stranger with my own eyes, I witnessed their bodies together: chest against chest; lips touching, parting, and touching again; arms wrapped around masculine shoulders and hips; necks entwined; foreheads connected. I witnessed my father in his lover’s arms, standing in the pouring rain as lightning flashed overhead and thunder beckoned their disclosed lust for each other. How extremely odd it was to stand in the Samoy Woods and see my father embrace another man, becoming affectionate with his tongue and fingers, lost in his hidden world. 


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