Art Bechstein steps out of the library into the summer of his graduation year. N
ot yet ready for respectability, he falls in with the exotic, charming Arthur Le
comte, and ricochets between a homosexual relationship and an intense affair wit
h a strange and beautiful girl called Phlox. Before long, the world of his new f
riends and the underworld of his father must collide, with consequences that Art
cannot control.