The death of david thorpe's aunt ivy, his only family member and the woman who raised him after his mom died, sets david, 28, on a gentle yet jarring journey of discovery. along the way the young ad man-turned personal gardener unearths a long buried family secret, the truth about his father (a convicted murderer) and most importantly, the truth about himself and his world. david and his two best friends--smart, independent, confident lexy jameson and michael laramie, a free spirit and up-and-coming sculptor--inhabit the casually indulgent dawn of their adulthood in 1990's austin, texas, and the emotionally repressed but beautiful surrounding areas of the lone star state. a transcendent wildflower meadow and david's emerging inner stirrings propel his soul to come out to bloom, to love and to play in the world.