Newly arrived in a sleepy Midwestern town, a young boy struggles to fit in with his skeptical peers. Yet as the years pass, he realizes that his adopted hometown has become more a part of his identity than he ever dreamed possible.

After two naked students, apparently making love at the time, fall to their deaths from a roof, Jonathan is driven to begin what he calls an "investigation" into who the students were and what led them to the rooftop.

A young woman fends off the advances of a slightly older man.