Teddy deals with loss in his life first by running, then by burying himself in his past. In the process, he reconciles himself to the memory of the woman who raised him (his Aunt Matty) and the memory of his best friend (Stephen).
Five scenes are set in 1992, during Matty’s 66th birthday weekend. Teddy returns to Pennsylvania to celebrate and relocate from the mounting death toll in New York City. After welcoming him, his aunt has doubts about this move for Teddy. In the end, he returns to NYC.
Alternating with these scenes are scenes from the summer of 1994. After his friend Stephen’s death, an increasingly distraught Teddy fixates on connecting with Stephen’s memory by involving himself with men with whom Stephen had sex. In his increasingly frantic effort to grasp at Stephen’s memory, Teddy drives himself to emotional disintegration, and on through to a tentative reconnection with his present.
The final scene is the day of Matty’s funeral in the Spring of 1995. Teddy, having come to an uneasy peace with himself attempts to help a young friend cope with Matty’s death.