William is terminally ill and his family has abandoned him. Only his closest friends, Susan and Henry, can care for him as he grows worse. Yet Willam grows ever more afraid that they, too, will leave him. It is not a simple loving friendship he requires, but a pledge of loyalty till death, a handing over of their lives to him. Jones explores the outer limits of friendship, the ties that bind and strangle, ridden with ambivalence and redemption.