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In 1973, teenaged Beth Bledsoe (Sophia Lillis) leaves her rural Southern hometown to study at New York University where her beloved Uncle Frank (Paul Bettany) is a revered literature professor. She soon discovers that Frank is gay, and living with his longtime partner Walid “Wally” Nadeem (Peter Macdissi) -- an arrangement that he has kept secret for years. After the sudden death of Frank's father -- Beth’s grandfather -- Frank is forced to reluctantly return home for the funeral with Beth in tow, and to finally face a long-buried trauma that he has spent his entire adult life running away from.

The film follows Beth (Lillis) as she begins her studies at New York University, where her estranged uncle Frank (Bettany) is a famous literature professor. She discovers that Frank is gay and living with his longtime partner, Wally (Macdissi). The sudden death of the family patriarch (Root), forces Beth, Wally, and Frank to return home.

A drama about a closeted gay man forced to come out to his Southern family in the 1970s.