艾默生（阿隆·韦伯 Aaron Webber 饰）是一个非常有文学天赋的男孩，年仅十三岁就已经完成了属于自己的第一部小说。长久以来，艾默生都和父母一起在加拿大东安的一个小岛上过着隐士一样的生活，但随着时间的推移，艾默生的父母发现儿子虽然在文科上成绩非常的优越，但理科却始终是弱项，于是，他们决定把艾默生送到一所公立学校中恶补理科。
和周围的同龄人格格不入的艾默生刚刚转学就受到了同学们的孤立和欺负，只有文学老师唐（Daniel MacIvor 饰）在艾默生的身上投注了别样的关注，这让艾默生渐渐的开始依赖起唐来。实际上，唐是一个同性恋者，也有着自己难以言说的苦闷。

This film looks at the 1950's muscle men's magazines and the representative industry that were popular supposedly as health and fitness magazines, but were in reality primarily being purchased by the still underground homosexual community. Chief among the purveyors of this literature was Bob Mizer (Daniel MacIvor), who maintained a magazine and developed sexually inexplicit men's films for over 40 years. Aided by his mother (Carroll Godsman), the two maintained a stable of not so innocent studs. At the end, the film moves into a court room drama as Mizer is tried for running a male-prostitute ring in the early 60's. Clips of Mizer's actual films starring individuals, such as Jack LaLanne and Joe Dallesandro, are included.

Henry Adler, an outwardly normal banker, yearns to make it in show business and still answers to his overbearing father. When Henry is hired to act in a television police drama, he realizes his big break has arrived and decides to do whatever it takes to get into the role — even if that means donning his police costume in public during off hours. It isn't long, however, before Henry begins to take the law into his own hands as his violent side chillingly emerges.