The story primarily unfolds through flashbacks. While at a bookstore, Ben (Randy West) encounters a former love, Emily (Lysa Thatcher). This triggers memories of his time six years earlier as a poet-in-residence at the Whitestone Institute , an artistic retreat where students are encouraged to explore their "wild and innocent" sensuality.
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