American opera set designer Clay hasn't messed around with fourteen-year-old boys since his Oxford days with friend, Italian opera impresario Lorenzo. A pandemic closes down Clay's work but Italy is up again and Lorenzo invites Clay to Naples to work with him. Lorenzo has a seventeen-year-old boy toy and two fourteen-year-old houseboys on offer.
A policewoman discovers her husband's stash of sexually explicit photos of underage girls and summarily kicks him out. That leaves just her, and her fifteen-year-old son Chad, to carry on as best they can without him. / (Reviews)
At fourteen, handsome, sunny, blue-eyed, and handful Ron is very much ahead of his times. He has already dabbled in trouble most don't contemplate before getting out of their teens, and he even has gotten familiar with alcohol. He is shipped off to an uncle in Singapore, but he hasn't finished learning life ahead of his time yet. In Singapore he finds his way to the House of Perfect Bliss and its procurer, Jun Lee.