Walter Samson is a successful book editor in post-World War II New York. He has more than enough money an interesting wife two smart children and reason to believe he?s leading the good American life?until a chance meeting with Barry Rogers. Barry is blue-collar handsome single and poor.
Walter is instantly drawn to Barry and despite the considerable risks installs him in the Samson?s three-story house on the Upper East Side where the two men try to keep their amorous relationship secret.
Against a backdrop of McCarthy-era fear with its doleful consequences and with society?s pervasive homophobia Walter manages to alter the direction and course of his life losing much but gaining more.
