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Alan Ball told Entertainment Weekly although the film is not autobiographical, the story is a very personal one. “When I was 33 years old, I was living in New York City. I took a trip home to Georgia to come out to my mother,” he said.

A final flashback reveals that Frank told Samuel they could not be together as it displeased God, and Samuel drowned himself in the lake shortly after. Wally and Beth discover Frank's clothes sitting on a dock by the water, but Frank is nowhere to be seen.