Broken teens facing incarceration for a crime they were forced to commit decide not to accept their destitute destiny and go about making a new one by forcing redemption onto bad people. The Juvenile Delinquents form a new dysfunctional family as they maneuver around problems manifesting from their youth, competitiveness, irrationality, and the gruesomeness of their new lives.

As a misanthropic, aging bartender cares for his estranged wife they begin to outgrow their cynicism while he forges a friendship with an impressionable young woman who is just discovering it.

In the 1970s, the golden age of gay pornography in New York City, a promising chorus boy is injured and told he will never dance again. Distraught and unimpressed with the "art" films playing seedy Times Square theaters, he gets his friends and lovers together and they start making their own hardcore movies. Against all odds the films are wildly successful until drugs, AIDS and cheap video technology bring it all crashing down