Mike, a young hired hand in California is working a small farm with a close friend, Dan. Mike is content on the farm and obviously attracted to the handsome Dan. Dan seems to be attracted to Mike as well but is a drifter and not happy as a farmer. He longs to finish out the contract and move on to a big city, perhaps with Mike. Gary, a boy from the next farm over, befriends them during their daily chores. Gary lives with his abusive father, a stepmother and a stepbrother. Gary is drawn to the camaraderie of the young farmhands in part to avoid his problems at home. When an innocent session of skinny-dipping is misconstrued by the boy's father, the young hired hands soon find themselves unjustly suspected of wrongdoing in a suddenly hostile small town.

"On a small California farm, an unspoken attraction develops between two hired hands. Mike and Dan's idyllic life is shattered when their kindness towards an abused boy brings the scrutiny of locals, revealing a violent underbelly to the sleepy town. Recently restored in partnership with UCLA and Outfest’s Legacy Project for its 30th anniversary, this moving rural drama is cited by many LGBTQ film experts as an influential antecedent to Brokeback Mountain." [Here TV]