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 mid-twenties former male model American is sent by a New York/Milan fashion house to Hanoi, Vietnam, to open a factory producing fabrics to pass off as expensive material for fashion house designs. He's frustrated by the bureaucratic runaround he gets in the old, Asian city he hates until he connects with a fetish for fourteen-year-old boys he'd enjoyed in Milan.
Follow-up story to Ten Rounds with Jose Cuervo, in which our hero discovers more than a few secrets about his mysterious hostess, himself, his girlfriend, and another woman.