1953. Eli is nineteen years old and lives alongside a cursed field with his strange aunt Dreama. Unsure of his place in the world and of the man he is becoming, Eli is ready to run. Shane Wright is a man with plenty to hide and caught in a complicated relationship with Eli. Then Jimmy Smart appears. Jimmy Smart, the mysterious showman who turns the gallopers at the fair. Under his watchful gaze, Eli discovers a world he knows nothing about with rules he cannot understand. Three men bound together in a story that spans 30 years, from 1953 into the 1980s and the AIDS epidemic