In the shared and private spaces of Iowa City, a loose circle of lovers and friends encounter, confront, and provoke one another in a volatile year of self-discovery. At the group's centre are Ivan, Fatima, and Noah who are buffeted by a cast of poets, artists, landlords, meat-packing workers, and mathematicians who populate the cafes, classrooms, and food-service kitchens of Iowa City. As each prepares for an uncertain future, the group heads to a cabin to bid goodbye to their former lives - a moment of reckoning that leaves each of them irrevocably altered.
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