Tom Lake

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of alcohol use disorder.

Lara knows that Joe is thinking about who will inherit the farm if none of their daughters have children. In one scenario, they sell the land to developers, and in another, all their trees die. The next morning, Joe comes into the kitchen and announces that they are taking the day off to go to the beach.

At the beach, Lara and Emily talk about the decision not to have children. Emily brings up the fact that her namesake from Our Town dies in childbirth, something that Lara hasn’t considered. They swim in Lake Michigan and afterward, the girls ask Lara for her happiest memory from that summer. Lara tells them about when she asked the director, Nelson, where he was going after the production.

Lara’s story resumes. After opening night, the director’s job was done, so he planned to go to his family’s cherry farm to help out. Nelson drew Lara a map to the farm and told her to borrow Pallace’s car and visit the following day. When Duke found out where she was going, he decided that he, Sebastian, and Pallace should go as well.