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.
Guido Sarto-Reutter is a fourteen-year old son of a Venetian-Austrian aristocratic family, that, in 1920, is both in poverty and riddled by scandal because both Guido's father and grandfather have, for years, been bedded by a Vienna baron in his castle. Guido is in a Venetian charity school for sons of families in straits like his run by a count who is pimping the boys. Guido has no trouble falling in with this demand, and the count has found a possible buyer for the boy.
At 14, Danny should have aged out to a work program in the 1870s from Eli Phillips's Iowa farm orphanage, but Eli takes too much sexual pleasure from the boy. While Eli is absent, his wife, Sarah, sells Danny to male brothel suppliers Meachem and Grant to take Danny west. Danny's goal is California, so he willingly goes with them and serves the men they sell his body to. Landing in Colorado, he's short of his goal, wanting to go to the coast and a man who will love and protect him.
The very rich American Hugh Fitzgerald, with a fetish, attends for a three-day experience taking him to Turkey, Scandinavia, China, and locally without ever leaving the lake.