Fourteen-year-old "wild boy" Charlie put the welfare of his dog, Ace, above all else. So, it was good that, when Ace was hit by a car, they were close to the house of a vet and his boyfriend who would take something other than cash to attend to Ace's wounds.
In July 1941, journalist (but really military intelligence agent) half English-half Burmese Gordon is dispatched to Burma to convince the artist who deflowered him at age fourteen and set him into having the fetish too to return to England to work on the war effort. The artist is in Burma because there are easy boys there and he tries to convince Gordon to stay. Gordon indulges in his old fetish and is also pursued by a Japanese sadist.