Henry’s a neurotic ex-Catholic and children’s books author. When he finds out his husband’s cancer has gone into remission, he sees it as his golden opportunity to get out of the relationship, while the getting is good, or, at least, possible. He takes reluctant refuge at his less-than-nurturing mother’s home in a rundown Florida trailer park. With him is Ronnie (Veronica), Henry’s best friend, who harbors her own ideas of who Henry should be with. She kisses him, but before he can respond, Henry’s husband Matt arrives, with his boundary-free cousin Carter in tow.

Matt refuses to believe that Henry is trying to move on, and accidentally backs him into committing to an awkward and impromptu three-way. Henry corrals Ronnie and a more-than-willing Carter and heads to a motel, determined to prove Matt wrong. Stranded back in the trailer park, Matt and mother-in-law Marion talk about religion and his cancer while Henry fights to overcome his own fears and enjoy the threesome. Matt goes inside to freshen their drinks and Marion passes away quietly in her lawn chair in front of the trailer.

After Marion’s funeral, Matt collapses in the street and agrees to give up and return home. Ronnie figures out that Henry is still in love with Matt, and in a blast of optimism and desperation formulates an elaborate plan to win Carter’s heart instead. But her recreation of the Joanie and Chachi proposal scene from Happy Days goes disastrously wrong when Carter reveals that he’s already living with a woman.

Henry confesses to Matt that his crippling fears around Matt’s illness are rooted in his youth, when AIDS was ravaging the gay community. But it’s Marion who tells Henry, in an unexpectedly harsh fantasy reunion scene, that he can’t run from the things that scare him. Instead, she convinces him to grab hold of his fears and run into the fire, keeping faith that eventually he’ll make it out the other side.