Aaron Grady Shaw

After ten years, Sheldon returns from New York City to Paris, Georgia. His mother Evelyn, a laundress who is stubborn, ornery, opinionated, mean-spirited, insulting, and inflexible, has sent a ten-year-old boy who says he's Sheldon's son up to see Sheldon. Sheldon comes home to straighten things out. Old arguments flare up - between mother and son and between brothers. Sheldon wants no part of fatherhood or family. Then, someone else from New York shows up at Evelyn's door, bringing a new set of challenges. Will this family ever stop airing its dirty laundry? And what of Sheldon: where is his pride? Can he, in the words of James Baldwin, go where his blood beats and live the life he has?

맨하탄에 살고 있는 10살 소년 ‘게이브’는 부모님의 이혼으로 사랑의 쓴맛을 깨닫게 된다. 그러나 소년의 앞에 말도 없이 찾아온 한 여름보다 뜨거운 ‘첫’사랑! 가라테 수업에서 만난 11살 소녀 ‘로즈메리’에게 풍덩 빠져버리게 되는데… “사랑은 바보나 하는 고통스러운 일! 그래도, 너도 날 사랑해주면 안 될까?”