When her mother died in a car accident, Alysia and her openly gay father settled into a non-conforming life in San Francisco, where Steve could be a part of a queer community of poets and Alysia could be surrounded by many different kinds of people, for better or worse. Alysia tells the story of her childhood and relationship with her father with sometimes painful honesty, never glossing over the difficult moments, but imbuing the entire recollection with so much love.