Trey Burnes grew up above a funeral home run by his strange and sometimes frightening parents. Now 17, he's locked up on an adolescent psychiatric ward, where he tries to remember an often traumatic past—including, perhaps, an attempt on his life.

As Trey relives his shadowed childhood, lit by moments of love and grace, he struggles to come to terms with the past and imagine how—whether—he can return to the world.