Frannie has always idolized her cousin Tru. So when Frannie overhears her parents saying that after a bad coming-out experience Tru will be staying with them for the summer, Frannie is excited and desperate to impress him. Just as she'd hoped, Tru soon becomes Frannie's key to a cooler life. But even as Frannie gets swept up in Tru's seemingly worldly way of life, she starts to worry that it may all be a facade - a mask that Tru wears to hide a dark secret.