Guy Griffith has been in San Francisco for two years, living with a female friend after his lover terminated his and Guy's ten-year relationship. Now 40, he is just becoming satisfied with being single. One day, he meets a sixteen-year-old boy, Doug Whitmore on a ridge overlooking a gay nudist beach, he surrenders with pleasure to the boy's radiant adolescent energy. Guy doesn't yet understand how deeply rooted Doug's hurts and confusions are, nor how dangerous they might come to be, and he is not entirely willing to admit, even to himself, how susceptible he is to the attraction that he and Doug both feel intensely.