Teenage boys working as prostitutes in American cities are the subject here, tracked through interviews and reporting assembled by journalist Tom Philpott. The film lays out how these boys are recruited, sold, and in some cases beaten or killed, presenting testimony from people close to the trade rather than dramatized reenactment. It aired before the Satanic Panic hysteria of the late 1980s and 1990s took hold, which gives its account a plainer, less sensationalized starting point than later coverage of similar subjects. The camera stays with the boys' own accounts of how they ended up on the street and what happens to them once they are there, rather than framing the story around law enforcement or moral panic. The claim underneath the reporting is blunt: this exploitation was happening in major Western cities then, kept going through the decades of hysteria that followed, and continues in the same cities now.