Who hasn’t been subject to the dreaded quarter-life question, “What do you want to do in life?” This is the kind of question that inexplicably keeps coming up for Julian (Will Hochman), a 25-year-old former athlete who lives alone in the woods, renting out his friend’s house to an odd string of nosey characters. From an eerie couple of folks who “fix people’s troubles” to a very strange independent filmmaker, the question on everyone’s mind is, “Why are you up here?”
In a rapidly changing New York of the 1980s, a Russian Jewish teenager wrestles with his identity, faith, and sexuality, all of which seem irreconcilable until he befriends two closeted men in his grandfather's senior housing complex.
Christopher McCann is an actor.