Argos Flavius, master painter of panels in sexual pleasure chambers for elite ancient Greek men enjoying boys, is living temporarily in Rhodes to paint panels for the Baths of Dionysus, where he sees and is drawn to a fourteen-year-old blond Greek boy slave. He loses the connection but later sees the boy on a balcony of what must be a male brothel across the skyline of Rhodes from Argos's own balcony. Argos goes in pursuit of the boy, both to paint and to possess him.
What's a horny fag college freshman to do? His roommate is straight and into older women. The jock stud and the geek sharing the dorm suite aren't sending any signals. Sure, he gets plenty of ass pounding, deep throating sex from his dad and younger brother when he goes home for a visit, but except for an incredible fuck late one night in the shower room with the lights off, nothing's going on. But everything changes when his roommate walks in on him jacking off.
The sexuality of a fourteen-year-old golden-haired squire with a gift for pleasing men is used in a ruse by a Crusader warrior chief in a fortress besieged by Saracens in the twelfth-century Levant to scheme his men's way through the Saracen lines and escape to the Mediterranean Sea.