A thirty-five-year-old American extends his conference trip to New Delhi, India, to feed a fetish for fourteen-year-old Indian boys that a New York friend of his is encouraging him to pursue. He hooks up with a teenage taxi driver and tourist guide who helps him out with his hopeful plan.
Fourteen-year-old farmer's apprentice Derek and his master, Abel, dance around mutual want in eighteenth-century Saxony until, losing control, Abel follows Derek into a field and takes the boy's virginity. While walking to another field to think on his plight, Derek is set on by three men going to recruit as mercenary soldiers in the American Revolution, who debauch him and take him with them to be a soldiers' boy.