In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Dustin Thomas's naive curiosity leads him into the shadows of Fort Lauderdale's seedy underground, where his innocence is met with violent and traumatic consequences. Despite the dire start, the dreariness of the season is instantly transformed when a handsome and mysterious new next-door neighbor arrives, the tattooed, multi-talented, and youthfully exuberant Midwesterner, Gauge Paulson. Gauge possesses an...