Composed of two intertwining stories one a gay comingofage story of a teenager nicknamed Chip and his first love the second that same character twenty years later Now called Christopher and in the closet he wants a life in politics and is about to run for the Maryland Senate with the help of his fiancées family one of the most politically connected in Washington But when Chris first love resurfaces in his life a man who reignites a ion in him Chris carefully constructed world threatens to crumble around him