An unusual triangle. One protagonist is a young sailor discharged from the Navy for stealing. The second is his stepmother, who has cancer and introduces him to drugs. The third is a neighbor, on probation for trying to kill her husband, with whom the sailor has an affair.

Eight stories on the maladies of family, love and sex. In Prince of Motown, a man's addiction to heroin results in his wife and baby going to a women's shelter, while Rhode Island Fish Company is on the ploys of a teenage girl to attract her family's attention.