Restless and abused, a young Francis Monterey makes the critical decision to flee from his volatile home in Suburbia, and take up a new life in the Northwoods of Minnesota. His journey leads him through the lush heart of the Headwaters of the Mississippi, and inexplicably into the arms of a doomsday cult, hiding something even darker than the apocalypse. This Is Where Things Play is at once the tender story of a young boy's journey to understand his own masculinity, and a frightening tale of revenge, paranoia, and lust.