50-something gay novelist Daniel Isham presides over a complicated menage financed by family money and the success of his kitschy, feel-good 'Rick and Dick' novels. His 40-year-old boyfriend Kit used to be involved with Sam, an experimental writer now dying from AIDS. The young, unstable art student Eric inhabits a room in the house Daniel shares with his boyfriend. On the fringes of the story lurk two shady brothers - Gary, a grifter who sells fake anti-AIDS drugs, and Adam, a porn director. When Sam threatens to expose Gary's racket, things turn violent.