Kyle (Sean Tataryn) is an 18-year-old aspiring gay poet who has left behind the stifling environment of Los Angeles' Valley for the more bohemian surroundings of the Silverlake district. Naive Kyle spends his days in coffee shops working on his maudlin verse and looking for love, and he thinks that he may have found it when he meets Mike (Christopher Bradley), a ruggedly handsome 30-year-old man who works in construction and has a taste for aggressive sex. Mike picks up Kyle and soon has him at home and in handcuffs; Kyle is hoping for a bit more tenderness in a relationship, but Mike is good looking enough that he doesn't complain too loudly. However, it isn't long before it becomes obvious that the two have little in common. Kyle wants to make their romance work; Mike can hardly be bothered and is already looking for new prospects as Kyle tries to psych himself up for his first major reading.