A young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother and with few options for his future, decides to join the Marines, doing whatever it takes to succeed in a system that would cast him aside.

In Brooklyn, the bankrupted owner of a book store Fioravante is forced to close his family business. His best friend Murray tells that his dermatologist Dr. Parker dreams on having a threesome and would pay a thousand-dollar to have with her friend Selima. Murray proposes to be Fioravante's gigolo and they start a male prostitution business. When Fioravante meets the Jewish Avigal, who is the widow of a rabbi, they fall in love with each other. But the Jewish Dovi loves Avigal and will make life...