It's December 1986 it was about 3 months after cliff buttons death, he was tragically crushed by the tour bus. It's Christmas Day and your with you boyfriend James and Lars and Kirk and your sitting down opening presents in front of the Christmas tree, and the only present James wanted was for cliff to come back, but we all knew that was never going to happen. James is really still struggling with survivor's guilt over his best friend, and it's beating him up.