In the fall of 1974, the quiet town of Pinecrest is shattered when a teenager’s birthday party ends in an unthinkable tragedy—leaving behind a single survivor and a crime scene unlike anything the town has ever seen.
In the midst of the 2017 Chechen gay purge, a young gay man is arrested, tortured, and forced into an impossible choice: betray the people he loves or die for them. He must summon the courage to defy a system determined to erase him.