 In Frank Vitale s autobiographical study, he plays a photographer living among the assorted outcasts, junkies, and artists populating Montreal s Main. Quieter and more introspective than most of his friends, Frank becomes smitten by Johnny, a fourteen-year-old from the suburbs. But the relationship is doomed by the startling degree of hypocrisy and possessiveness that boils over among the group when they discover the intensity of Frank s feelings about the boy.