When Dr Voth comes across an old manuscript from 1724, he becomes obsessed with the life of a 12-year-old orphan girl who was sold into servitude and grew to become one of history's most notorious and wanted transexual thieves.
When Summer Ryan disappears from a small town in Alabama, it brings to light other disappearances of ‘good, church-going girls’ in the area.
Over three periods in his life, a boy grows into a man, learning to be his own person and accepting his sexuality in a world that hasn't accept him.