Annie McNamara

The O’Mallerys have gathered in their local park to share some barbecue and rousing straight talk while they await their youngest sister’s arrival. What appears to be a festive occasion is actually something quite different.

When Terry, an eleven year-old boy, is abandoned by his father at a highway-side pumpkin patch, he spends a peculiar and life changing night with Mick, the misfit proprietor of the patch.

In 1970, with the Kent State protests as a backdrop, sixteen-year-old Bobbie and her professor parents Kate and Rob, are torn between their high ideals and the old- fashioned comforts of the nuclear family.