With his senior year starting soon, Adam Thorn is looking forward to finally leaving his small Washington State town and finding other people like him. Coming from a deeply religious family, Adam has known most of his life that he was gay. His father, a local preacher, does not want to hear of this and studiously ignores his son's many hints. Unlike his older brother who is the family's golden boy, Adam is charismatic but filled with anxiety and worries about the past, the present, and the future.
Today is not going to be a normal day. There is a party in the evening celebrating Enzo's departure. Enzo, Adam's first boyfriend, has been a large part of his life and Adam's first love and first sexual encounter. But their relationship fizzled, and Enzo dumped Adam. Adam hasn't quite gotten over this rejection, but good things came out of it because he met Linus, and the two of them are now in love. Adam's best friend in the whole world, Angela, is also leaving soon, going aboard for a year to study.
In one day, Adam gets sexually harassed at work by his boss and is fired for not accepting his boss's proposition. His brother got an African-American girl pregnant. His father studiously ignores the fact that Adam is gay. With his life falling apart, Adam doesn't know where to turn or what the best choices are for his life.
At the same time, the spirit of a girl who was killed by her friend who was high on drugs has been accidentally captured by the queen of the world beyond, and now she is driven to explore her death and discover what truly happened to her. Like Adam, she is bound to this world, and like him she needs to be freed from what is holding her back. As the two stories merge, can they both be released from their pain and misery?
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