Leah has a problem. Her former prom date, Daniel, has apparently been disowned by his ultra-conservative Lutheran pastor father because he is gay. How can Leah convince her new boyfriend, James, to help Daniel to re-establish a relationship with his estranged parents? Enter Sylvia, the perky twenty-something-year-old MSW student that Leah enlists to help out with her own struggling relationship with James and, oh boy, do things get complicated At the very heart of this compelling literary story, however, is the honest search for real answers to the questions: What is gender? What is love?