David MacElroy, a lab technician in San Francisco, is a divorcee who is close with his gay son Justin and his partner. In his journal he recounts the first-ever alien visitation to earth and of how it affected him on a very personal level. He describes the enigmatic visitors as inverted celery stalks that inadvertently alter humanity in a positive way, but that also manage to cause quite a stir while attempting to satisfy their own curiosity about us. Earthling reactions run the gamut from celebratory to fanaticism to terrified. The consequences of this first encounter between aliens and humans are both awkward and humorous, yet result in providing our race with the most precious gifts of all.
