Each of the three short films in this collection presents a young gay man at the threshold of adulthood. In "Pool Days," Justin is a 17-year old Bethesda lad, hired as the evening life guard at a fitness center. In the course of the summer, he realizes and embraces that he's gay. In "A Friend of Dorothy," Winston arrives from upstate for his freshman year at NYU. He has to figure out, with some help from Anne, a hometown friend, how to build a social life as a young gay man in the city. In "The Disco Years," Tom looks back on 1978, the year in high school that he came out of the closet after one joyful and several painful encounters

2001年9月10日，SOHO一族摄影师爱瑞克（迈克尔·尤瑞 Michael Uriel 饰）在《村声》杂志上刊登了一则广告，欲出租自己在纽约市的一套公寓，该公寓距离世贸只有12个街区，通过窗口能看到世贸双塔。谁能想到一夕之间外面世界就发生了巨变。9月12日开始，陆陆续续有人留言希望看房，然而看的又何止是房间？恐怖袭击令每个人的心灵都遭受到了难以言表的创伤，而习惯独处的爱瑞克也迷失了方向，人生不知不觉来到了岔路口。

Justin, a 17-year old entering his final year of high school, gets a job as a life guard at a fitness center. Surrounded by hard bodies of both sexes and instructed by his boss to keep an eye on the steam room to report any men having sex, Justin begins to divine the direction his erotic feelings point. In separate incidents, Vicky and Russell, two older co-workers, hit on him. He tries out responses to both, and then must figure out what to do with his new self-knowledge.

鲍勃（亚历克西斯·阿奎特 Alexis Arquette 饰）和布兰达（Christian Maelen 饰）是大学时代的好友，两人相识多年，关系十分要好。在内心里，身为同性恋者的鲍勃一直深深爱恋着布兰达，然而，对待感情懵懵懂懂的布兰达并没有明确的回应鲍勃。 某日，在同学聚会上，一向大大咧咧的鲍勃那过分亲昵的举动惹恼了布兰达，后者对其大打出手，经由此事，两人彻底分道扬镳，不再联系。一晃眼五年过去，一场老同学的婚礼让鲍勃和布兰达重新走到了一起，此时鲍勃已经有了感情深厚的男友，而布兰达亦即将步入一段恋情之中，此时此日，久别重逢的两人之间，会发生怎样的意外故事呢？