By 1920, the Chinese authorities in northeast China's Manchuria respond to the vast influx of White Russian refugees flowing into the city of Harbin, escaping the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, by disenfranchising the refugees, making them nonpersons. They are on their own to thrive or die. Beautiful, small fourteen-year-old boy Pyotr survives by selling himself to an auction house serving men with a boy fetish and unusual sexual tastes.
An American novelist is in Berlin, Germany, researching his next book at the state library. He has visited Germany before to feed his fetish for fourteen-year-old boys, fourteen being the age of consent in Germany. He is trying to curb that fetish, though, and has come to Berlin this time solely to research. He has to walk through a park where homeless boys lurk, though, to get to the library. Temptation rears its head.
Building collapses are usually a tragedy for everyone, but when the Miami condo of a man, Peter Stroud, going from one new identify, Matthew Finney, to yet another one, Terrence Sinclair, while on the escape from being caught indulging in his fetish for fourteen-year-old boys, comes down in a deep pile of rubble, he, presumed to be under the pile, is given an opportunity to escape to Italy and to try again, with his fetish having been extended.
Fourteen-year-old boys naturally want to explore nature in creek beds, and parents wanting them to grow up naturally give them some space to do so. Ross, though, is thinking much further into adulthood and establishing his preferences than that when he leaves home to explore the creek but winds up in the clutches of randy homeless guys Casey and Ray at the closed reservoir.
14-year-old Sandy has escaped home in "wherever" and come to Hollywood, not to become a star but to find a sugar daddy. Homeless, crouching under a bridge, and living off serving men, he is offered a trip to a brothel ranch to be given to a movie star as a favor exchange. It's a "why not?" proposition for him.
Fourteen-year-old Tampa rent-boy Kenny is picked up to role-play kidnapping and sexual debauching in a mansion garden by a ankle-bracelet detained Cuban mobster. How much of this is role-playing and how much of it is real, though?]
Karl, a provider of sex toys and equipment in Munich, Germany, lures fourteen-year-old skateboarders to be willing to entertain him and exercise his wares in the confines of a stalled elevator.
It's a fight for the innocence of fourteen-year-old Erick against the randy and determined Hulk in a dungeon, a fight that it's guaranteed the boy will lose-or so it seems.