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.

When there is a disagreement over his new boyfriend, 16 year old Tommy runs away from home to his favorite Uncle in Manhattan. Uncle Tony is much less sympathetic than Tommy hoped for, but then Tony is hiding his own secret. Or at least he thinks he is. When his sister Rose arrives looking for her son, Tony discovers that the entire family knows already knows the truth and nobody cares. Certainly not Rose, who settles matters with her son and gives her brother some much needed perspective.

Gwendolyn and Cecily (yes, that Gwendolyn and Cecily) take a vacation to the beach. Looking to get away for a bit, they get away for a century and almost lose their way. In the end everything is OK. After all, we all know the importance of being with Ernest.

Victor and Ian meet and hook up on Friday night. Come Sunday evening they are still together. Ian thinks there is something here that's worth pursuing; Victor is worried about the age difference (he is 50, Ian is 27). They go back and forth on the "yes" and "no" of going forward, finally resolving to at least go out for dinner and see what follows.