- A interrelated character study of various persons connected to underground off-off Broadway theater subculture in New York.
- In this bizarre character study drama played as a satire of the Cafe Cino/La Mama/Andy Warhol sub-culture, Dewey is a young actor/hustler who has just had sex with an older woman actress, named Miss Gloria, who talks about her lifestyle as a 'compass rose'. After Dewey leaves the apartment, Gloria has over some 'medical doctors' who give her 'medication' involving a blood transfusion. Dewey goes home where his girlfriend, Olive, arrives and shows off some of her latest wardrobe and plays around with him, despite his lack of interest in her. Dewey phones his friend Allen, a hippy who is also a struggling actor and sells drugs on the sides in wanting to look to finance his first directing gig. Meanwhile, Brandex is another bare-chested actor who flirts with Cathy, a dim-witted actress/stoner who debates which blouse to wear for the upcoming show.
- Miss Gloria (Ann Linden), a wealthy, 30-something, albeit washed-up Hollywood actress, spends an afternoon in her Manhattan townhouse having sex with a younger man, a local hustler named Dewey (Robert Service), whom she pays him $100 for the sex. Gloria excuses him from her house (giving Dewey the keys to her white sports car parked on the street), when her doctors arrive. One doctor (Hal Borske) is to administer heroin while another doctor and his nurse are there to administer a blood transfusion. The other doctor suggests they spend the evening together at some of the happenings in the East Village.
Meanwhile, Dewey returns home to his small and crumbling apartment where he takes a bath and has a phone conversation with Allen (Gerald Jaccuzzo) a tuberculosis-stricken Southern hippy filmmaker who wants to hire Dewey to appear in his next "experimental film." Just then Olive (Candy Hammond), a nympho and struggling actress, arrives at Dewey's apartment for sex, but he does not return her feelings towards him.
Elsewhere, Brandex (Matt Baylor) is another part-time actor/hustler who is with his tart girlfriend Cathy, a stoner who wants to appear in Allen's latest film that he is currently working on. Allen pays a visit to him to discuss his film project, and he later goes to Dewey's apartment to discuss the film and asks if he would like the part as the lead role.
Olive returns to her own small apartment where she writes 'Olive loves Dewey... in death" in lipstick on her mirror and then commits suicide by removing all her clothes and shoots herself with a small pistol she kept in her purse.
At Allen's apartment, a friend of his calls a doctor who examines him and declares that he has a lung hemorrhage as a result of his TB. When the doctor says that he would like to get Allen to the hospital right away, he replies "Why wait, Doc? You can get me right here!" The doctor gives Allen a small bottle of antibiotic pills and then leaves. After taking a few pills, Allen seems to feel better and his coughing subsides.
That evening, Dewey picks up Miss Gloria outside her townhouse in her sports car and drives her to a local nightclub/theater called Cafe Der Fuhrer where the German butch owner (Maggie Rogers) is putting on an "abstract play" titled 'The Linda Darnell Story' which is staged with a drag queen and two other bare-chested men (one of whom is Allen). Things take a bad turn when some of Dewey's psychedelic friends make remarks about Gloria's age and she catches him snickering. In the back room of the club, Dewey and Gloria get involved in a pie fight orgy that ends with the death of Allen, who tries to party too soon after his recovery.
When Allen's dead body is removed from the area, everyone is bummed out and leaves. Gloria then meets with two dangerous-looking tart friends of hers, named Jade and Opal, whom abduct Dewey, tie him face down on a bed, and strip him naked for punishment. Miss Gloria and the other women begin whipping and beating Dewey with leather belts to which Miss Gloria exalts: "On the map of human experience, pain is the compass rose. The point leading to the true north".
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