Blowdown is the story of a man's reluctant journey guided by the mutual love and respect for his ninety-five year old grandmother. William, an attractive middle aged gay man and post-AIDS era survivor, travels from Vancouver, British Columbia to Palm Springs, California, to visit his dying grandmother. He is both unaware and unwilling to participate in the introspective voyage she has planned for him as her last hurrah. Her surprise confession of a decades-old family secret leads to her own unexpected redemption and endows her with the authority to issue increasingly extreme and bizarre...