29-year-old Eban has retreated home to his parent's house in Seaside Oregon after the dissolution of his teaching job in Seattle. There he courts 15-year-old Charlie and eventually the two start a sexual relationship. As the age of consent in Oregon is 18 years and given the age difference, the adults in this drama take a dim view of this development.

Adrift in a lush, nocturnal urban landscape, Nick is a post-modern urban hero asserting his anarchistic agenda on the endless maze of virgin exterior walls that comprise downtown Seattle and Portland. For writer/director Bolton's lonely "tagger" protagonist, the vast wall surfaces of deserted alleys and trainyards are at once a daunting symbol of capitalist oppression and a texturally rich, seamless tableau ripe for exploitation to amplify his artistic dialectic of anger and rebellion. His own virtually anonymous existence seemingly only secondary to the painted surfaces and "rupture the system" manifesto which more poignantly evidence his presence, Nick's prodigious solo graffiti output is interrupted by friendship with another young tagger. Their communication begins as less verbal than a kind of shared graphic tour de force; their enormous collaborative graffiti murals appear to emerge as the unmistakable offspring of their kindred spirit. But eventually their assumptions about one another are disproved as political, emotional and ethical issues arise which cause their relationship to dissolve into the background of urban detritus, and the artists themselves emerge only further atomized and alienated by the experience. Compelling themes, sensitive performances, and luscious visuals define this film which is a revealing immersion into the experiential reality of those daring to make their art in a socially condemned arena. For a film ostensibly focusing on manipulated surfaces, Bolton's cinematic artistry probes deep into the consciousness of the "tagger" and "graffiti artist" sub-culture.

故事设定在70年代的美国南方。纳森(斯蒂潘·本德 Stephan Bender 饰)是个聪明但有些内向的少年，他不幸的生长在一个暴力家庭中。为逃避现实，他幻想隔壁有个叫罗伊的孩子是他最好的朋友。后来纳森一家搬到另一个城市，真的有个叫罗伊(麦克斯米兰·罗格 Maximillian Roeg 饰)的男孩成为了他的邻居。罗伊比纳森高一个年级，两人慢慢熟悉起来并最终发生了关系。一天晚上，纳森的父亲喝醉后开始侵犯他，显然这绝不是第一次。纳森在学校野营时也遭到同学的粗暴对待。也许肉体的死亡反而是一种解脱，在梦里被吞噬的灵魂才能获得绝对的自由和平静？ 《梦男孩》入围第58届柏林电影节全景单元。电影根据作家吉姆·格里姆斯利获“石墙文学奖”的同名小说改编。