Joe Campbell is your typical kid next door. Being 18 and, of course, perpetually horny as well as relatively good looking, Joe has no trouble attracting sex partners, including hot workmen, soldiers, and college students who are eager to hook up in the back of his dad's hardware stores. Yes, Joe has lots of sex, but will he ever find real love? Having just graduated from high school, Joe has his future all planned out. He will work this summer at his dad's hardware stores to save money for college, where he will enroll in the fall. Though he loves art and is a very talented sketch artist, he will major in business so he can work his way up in his father's business. But all of a sudden, BAM! Joe's life is turned upside down, and he learns that life is not always quite so simple for a gay kid in Columbus, Georgia. As Joe works the streets and alleys of Atlanta just to survive, will the handsome stranger who has been watching him from the shadows become his savior or his nemesis?