The sequel to Love Ruins Everything, picks up the story four months later as the characters prepare for the approach to the Millennium. Over the course of the year 1999, Nomi and her lover Julie negotiate the joy and pain of a long-distance relationship, Nomi’s cousin Henry devotes more energy to AIDS activism as his own health declines, and Solly and Belle, Henry’s estranged parents are drawn closer by their shared love of their son and Bubbe, aged somewhere between 92 and 97, might be hard of hearing, but she’s not blind to the crazy events swirling around her.