The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures is set in the summer of 2007, when Gus Marcantonio, a retired longshoreman, summons his children to the family’s Brooklyn brownstone for a series of shocking announcements. As Gus’s kids attempt to address a profound crisis in their difficult father’s difficult life, their own spectacularly messy problems—and spectacularly messed-up lovers, spouses and exes—follow them home.