Albert Beaumont was born in the small coastal town of Pass Christian, Mississippi, in 1880. Throughout his life, he must grapple with the fact that he is different from those around him. Unlike his brothers and his friends, Albert finds himself attracted to other men, a secret he must keep close to his chest for fear of punishment by both his peers and the law. He struggles to understand and accept himself as he navigates a world that is entirely hostile to people like himself. When a letter from an English cousin arrives, inviting Albert to stay with her in England for the summer, he accepts, thus changing the course of his life forever. One day in 1908, an Irish steward named Edwin Fitzpatrick walks into his life. Edwin and Albert form a deep connection, but when fate threatens to break them apart and send Albert back to the United States, Albert must reckon with spending the rest of his life living a lie. Albert follows the sometimes uplifting, sometimes heartbreaking life of Albert Beaumont as he moves from a troubled childhood in the Reconstruction-Era south, to an idyllic young adulthood working as an engineer in Edwardian England and Ireland, to a few years as an actor in the early-film era of 1920s Los Angeles before finally returning to the Mississippi shores of his youth in the early years of the Great Depression.