What triggered two teenagers to savagely assault a man leaving a gay bar? What kind of men are they now in their 30s? THE SCAR LETTERS follows Rudy Dallmann, who as a young man, is savagely beaten by two teenagers after leaving a gay bar. Nearly twenty years later, Rudy, now 40, lives a single, isolated life in rural Massachusetts as a self-employed gardener. He never reported the crime and the memory of the attack and motive of his unknown assailants continues to haunt his present. Goaded by his best friend Tex, a major AIDS fundraiser and social activist, to finally “get on the record", Rudy decides to go further: He tracks these men down, one at a time, coming to terms with them and himself in the process.