Summary

Back in New York in the 1980s, things are changing. Lucy can no longer afford to live on the Lower East Side, Bohemian artists are now turning blue chip, and Jean-Michel Basquiat dies. It feels like the end of an era. Lucy lives through the AIDS epidemic, watching people around her die while she is powerless to do anything.

Lucy comes out as transgender at her workplace, Bard College, in July, before the start of the academic year. Her transition is positively and respectfully received by her coworkers, who advise her not to formally come out to her students, but to simply start living as Lucy in front of them. As she navigates becoming Lucy, Lucy is reminded of what it was like to negotiate between Belgium and America as a young immigrant child. Many of her relationships remain the same, some change...