Jon FitzGerald

Two carefree pals traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college are mistakenly arrested and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who has just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. When he arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend to try his first case, it's a real shock - for him and the Deep South!

It has been a year since Collin and Hugh first embarked on building a life together. To commemorate the occasion, Hugh has planned a party, not realizing that Collin is having second thoughts about staying. Touching on the often painful nuances of love, commitment, identity and growth, this quiet drama, set in the Pacific Northwest, subtly explores the full complexity of the relationship between these two men.