When Frank arrives in “heaven,” he’s greeted by his mother. He almost doesn’t recognize her since the last time he saw her she was old and sickly. As she tells him, “everyone can be young and healthy in heaven.” Relieved and excited, he joins his mother in a community of quaint little homes with white picket fences that’s dominated by Frank’s childhood religion. At first, it all seems too good to be true. However, when Frank discovers that neither the saints from his religion, nor many of his friends and family from earth (including his own father) are anywhere to be found, he begins to question whether or not this is in fact heaven. Frank's probing is taken as insubordination by the church leaders, and, after resisting their attempts to get him back in line with the consensus group-thought, Frank finds himself an outcast. In the first act climax, he makes the gut-wrenching decision to leave his mother and her community behind, and set out n search of the true heaven. Little does Frank know that his adventures are just beginning.