Life Doesn't Always

After three decades of unwavering Amish faith, Zephaniah Stoltzfus contemplates the unthinkable: setting aside belief in God and living an honestly gay life. On his own in Philadelphia, he attempts to decipher the cryptic protocols of the outside world, and his nascent career in computer graphics pulls him abruptly "through the looking glass" to Los Angeles. Zeph soon finds himself the sidekick of a Bogart-quoting P.I. named O'Keefe and drawn into investigations involving murder, rape, blackmail, hacking, grand larceny, illegal gambling, prostitution, drug dealing and aggravated assault. Not exactly the peaceful rural life Zeph envisioned sharing with a lover on coming out. But life doesn't always...