Remy Walsh is buried in secrets. The big ones he keeps from his friends are his maman, the Cajun beauty Aurore, is housebound and trapped in her own world, and his runaway father left seven years ago without a word to Remy. He hates him. But Remy has another giant secret. Even though he and his boyfriend Trung are a popular couple at school, Remy is afraid to tell his mother he is gay. The last thing he wants to do is hurt this fragile being he loves so much. So he retreats into the cocoon that being an actor is, starring in his school's musical and forgetting for a time each day, during rehearsal, that he has so many problems eating at him. His home is about to literally come crashing down on him. He well knows, but doesn't believe, that secrets have a way of coming out. Will anyone come to his rescue?