After a 10-year absence, a gay man named Sweet William (Leavins) returns home to Nova Scotia for the wedding of his sister (Fox). He's dismayed to discover that his family is every bit as as dysfunctional as it was when he fled the roost: grandmother is afflicted with Alzheimer's; dad is a tyrannical alcoholic; there's a younger sibling he didn't even know existed; and mum just wants to jack it all in and run away. Unsurprisingly, in this environment, William is plagued by memories and visions of himself as a suicidally unhappy teenage misfit.
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