Uprooted to a Kansas City neighborhood, a 10-year-old boy develops an unlikely friendship with a retired professor and his transgender daughter.
In 1986, ten-year-old Tate is uprooted and unwillingly moved to the suburbs of Kansas City. As his parent's marriage unravels, Tate finds solace in the unlikely friendships of his next-door neighbors: a retired college professor and his transgender daughter, Gossamer.