A young girl goes to New York to escape her father's attentions and gets herself deeper and deeper into the victim's position. First the Prof, then the Principal, then her girlfriend, then her brother, then her boyfriend contribute to her education. Never mind, in the end it all comes right.
Stephanie moves in with her younger brother Blair and his wife Joanna, gets in trouble with them, and attains her fantasy of serving her brother, but at a high price.
To keep his mother, Tala, and himself going, fourteen-year-old Filipino-American boy Angelo takes up with American sailors near the 1973 Subic Bay, Philippines, naval complex when his B-girl mother is too ill to turn tricks. They have had a hardscrabble existence in the Olongapo City slums since Angelo's sailor father shipped out thirteen years earlier. Angelo is ready to service sailors, but being handed around proves to be a rough, loveless life.