Max just had to get away.

The navy veteran lands in war-ravaged Phnom Penh to work at the international school. He meets pianist Paul and his sax life takes a new turn. He meets a fellow veteran, Ron, who takes him down to Saigon, and it rekindles in him his taste for those beyond the binary. Then Ximei stomps into his life. The novice bodybuilder has Chinese and Nigerian-French-Khmer parents, and some interesting ideas about gender. She sets him on a course to find his.

And she steals his heart.