A full circle story. What goes around comes around. A wicked family saga. "Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for what his hands have dealt out shall be done to him." It was the first day of Smiley's tenth year in the "Mentally Retarded Sophomore Class."Smiley had prepared for his first-day-of-school-beating by donning Aunt Lettie's blouse and his shit-kicking saddle shoes. The backwoods Appalachian coal mining camp folk of Solitude, Virginia vs. the NYC Stonewall riots of 1969. Two different worlds collide. Stonewall meets Solitude. A family mired in secrecy, a family steeped in the bible belt of God-ordained heterosexuality must confront its own sons' homosexuality. A town seething in gossip and intolerance accosts two presumed strangers who turn the tables on them and the other cheek. Surprise and transformation makes a family of the individuals in Solitude.