A teenage boy lounges by the pool, fantasizing about his conservative girlfriend who won't go beyond second base.
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After an intimate encounter with his younger sister Sara, Mark spends an agonizing week navigating guilt, awkwardness, and shifting family dynamics before things finally begin to thaw.
A lonely man's vulnerable online invitation receives a mysterious reply leading to a secretive rendezvous at a restaurant signaled by a yellow rose.
A young boy in post-WWII Connecticut recounts the transformative summer of 1948, shaped by the absence of his father killed in the Pacific and the awakening brought by formative events.