Neil Byrne, a teenager in Dublin, Ireland, in the 1990s, comes to terms with the fact that he is gay and seeks acceptance from his friends and family.

Sixteen-year-old Aaron Soto is struggling to find happiness after a family tragedy leaves him reeling. He's slowly remembering what happiness might feel like this summer with the support of his girlfriend Genevieve, but it's his new best friend, Thomas, who really gets Aaron to open up about his past and confront his future. As Thomas and Aaron get closer, Aaron discovers things about himself that threaten to shatter his newfound contentment. A revolutionary...

"Real life isn't a fairytale. But Tié̂n still enjoys reading his favorite stories with his parents from the books he borrows from the local library. It's hard enough trying to communicate with your parents as a kid, but for Tié̂n, he doesn't even have the right words because his parents are struggling with their English. Is there a Vietnamese word for what he's going through? Is there a way to tell them he's gay?"--

¿Y si pudieras borrar de tu mente los recuerdos que te impiden ser feliz? El Bronx, Nueva York, en un futuro no muy lejano... Aaron Soto, de dieciséis años, lucha por encontrar la felicidad a pesar de las cicatrices que arrastra, tanto físicas como emocionales: el suicidio de su padre, su propio intento fallido de abandonar este mundo, una vida de necesidades y, para colmo, la inquietante atracción que siente por Thomas, su nuevo y ambiguo amigo......