Following their mother's heart attack, three adult children return home and try to sort out their lives, including Anna's obsession with having sex with strangers, Portia's unfaithful husband, and Emery's desire for his own family.
Over the course of a single summer in 1976 Santa Barbara, California, fourteen-year-old Jamie gains new insights into the confusing world of adolescence, sex, friendship, love, and family, in a poignant coming-of-age tale.