The Court of the Really Tall Oak Tree With the Dementedly Twisted Limb returns. What could be better than bar fights, a game of Seven Minutes in Heaven, and a stuffed monkey?
When Armageddon Lost lead singer Thorn MacLauren suffers a leukemia relapse, the six quirky former teachers who’ve made him their life’s mission must come to terms with the prospect of life without ‘The Kid’.
As the story begins, summer is in high gear, and Thorn and the other members of bar band Armageddon Lost are celebrating Thorn’s twenty-first birthday. Their raunchy stage antics are surpassed only by the mischief they make behind closed doors. An encounter in a closet, during an adolescent party game, leads Thorn to question his sexuality and threatens the closest friendship he’s ever known. By autumn, Thorn’s cancer is back, and the six people who love him most rededicate themselves to the pledge that five of them once made, as his high school teachers… they’re not going to let the kid go without a fight.
Though surrounded by people who love him, Thorn has never been more alone. He seeks solace in the arms of a stranger, but even the love of a remarkable woman can’t mitigate his grief for lost friendship and his longing for the forbidden love that destroyed it. In the two years that follow, Thorn’s friends laugh until they cry, dream until hope dies. Only when it’s too late do they come to know how much they really stood to lose. In the end, the future for them all hinges on the faith of one. Shane -- admitted ‘gender-confused manic-depressive, prone to hallucinations’ -- holds life as they all know it in the palm of his tiny hand.
produced by Quarterstep Productions and used under license.
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