Sam takes shelter in California with her over-therapized cousins Joey and Lauren after being outed and tormented by her parents back in rural Pennsylvania. In this new home, Sam discovers The Funny Farm, an imaginary world filled with animals, magic, and Roxy, her gay best friend. What starts out as a playful safe haven for a lost kid eventually transforms into a quasi-therapy(ish) trauma response for a misguided teen. Sam attempts to bring Roxy out of her fantasy and into her reality by introducing her to Joey through a catfishy penpalship. Joey, closeted, naïve, and the youngest of the three, finds queer solace in his fake friendship with Roxy, but Lauren, bossy, mature, and the oldest of the three, has been claiming that Roxy hasn’t been real since they were kids. This doesn’t help Lauren and Sam’s shaky relationship, which they’ve had since Sam moved in. After landing in a perfect blend of suspicion and jealousy, Lauren snoops for evidence and discovers Sam’s secret stash of letters between Joey and “Roxy,” both revealing the truth to Joey and shattering Sam’s blurred fantasy-reality world. This leads Joey to exile Sam from their lives and Sam to run away in a panic, promising to never come back. Five years later, Joey and Lauren are on their way to the airport to rekindle with the returning Sam, both doing their best to reconcile with the past and learn how to move forward. At the airport, Sam finally confesses the truth about Roxy, bringing together what Joey and Lauren already knew with what they have never been able to truly understand.