Duas amigas de infância voltando para casa, em um verão quente e úmido da Nova Inglaterra, passam os dias e noites em festas, mergulhando e reavivando velhos relacionamentos. Mas quando um problema vivido por ambas no passado se torna cada vez mais difícil de ser ignorado, a distância entre as duas começa a crescer.
Gordon Schwinn, a writer and composer for Mr. Bungee's children TV show, is diagnosed with arteriovenous malfunction and must go through a risky craniotomy. Before the operation, he faces his fear of dying and not leaving a meaningful artistic legacy, accompanied by his sailor boyfriend Roger, his unstable mother Mimi, his friend and agent Rhoda and nurse Richard, all while having hallucinations of his tyrannical frog boss, homeless ladies and sailing.
