 Summer for a kid is a time for playing outside, making friends, and learning more about yourself. For Lacey, an 11-year-old living in western Massachusetts in the early 1990s, the summer is languid and rather confusing, as she observes her mother move from one lover to another and reconnect with a friend. You know what's funny? What? Every moment of my life is hell. You actually seem very happy to me a lot of the time.