Following the interlocking affairs of four men Robin, an architect in his late forties, who is trying to build an idyllic life in Dorset with his younger lover Justin, a would-be actor increasingly disenchanted with the countryside Robin's attractive and dangerously volatile 22-year-old son Danny and Justin's former boyfriend Alex As each falls under the spell of romance, drugs, country living or rough trade, a richly ironic picture emerges of the illusions of love, and of the clashing imperatives of modern gay life