In 1983, Oliver Nicholas, at 13, is well-poised to enter the precocious teenage world of first-sex, vodka and possible-love in New York Metropolis when he's traumatized by the stroke of his housekeeper (and solely true maternal determine), a sixty-five-year-old Chilean girl named Aida. What was imagined to be an exhilarating and considerably fearful ceremony of passage - diving into the thrilling, fast-paced world of first experiences - rapidly turns into skewed by an incomprehensible despair, and a home of inside horrors. Surrounded by ladies - his untraditional, Spanish, photographer mom (extra within the function of confidante than mom) his sister, a comedic, door-slamming tormentor, marked by her guardian's divorce; and Aida, his silver-haired emotional focus on the verge of demise in Lenox Hill Hospital - Oliver struggles to take care of his function as "man of the home" and his sanity.
