Five American Christian families, each with a gay or lesbian child, sit for interviews about faith, marriage, and church life alongside the moment they learned their son or daughter was not straight. The film follows the Robinsons, whose son Gene became the Episcopal Church's first openly gay bishop, and the family of former House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt, whose daughter Chrystie came out publicly during his presidential campaign. Bishop Desmond Tutu and biblical scholars including Bishop John Shelby Spong appear alongside the families, walking through the handful of scripture passages most often cited against homosexuality and arguing that centuries of translation and context have been misread. The film also traces the toll of rejection, including a mother's account of her daughter's suicide attempt after coming out. Archival footage of church debates and protest signs sits next to home movies of the children as kids, tracing the distance between a family photo album and a pulpit condemnation. The families' own reconciliations, not abstract theology, carry the argument.