Kansas City 1959: When Andy's boyfriend leaves, Andy goes on a trip to confront him and discovers his lover's double life.

An anxious and ungainly teenage boy struggles against bullies, puberty, and his fears of mortality when his parents send him to a summer water polo camp.

While a plague devastates the peasantry, a mad prince hosts a masquerade ball for the noble class in his castle. When a noblewoman is exiled, her long-lost twin, raised among the lower classes and seeking shelter from the plague, assumes her identity and enter the castle as an imposter. Once inside, she is received into a decadent world of orgies, opium, power schemes, revenge, and decapitations.

The plot revolves around a socially anxious twelve-year-old who grapples with the harsh social dynamics at an all-boys water polo summer camp. As the summer progresses, his tween anxiety escalates into a harrowing psychological ordeal.