One young man's struggle for gay liberation in the 1970s takes him down a path from which there seems to be no escape. As the reader watches Dave Rosen, falling farther away from the man he loves, from Champaign-Urbana to Chicago, Illinois, descend into a pit of obsession, drug addiction and then victory they will be witnesses to actual historical events, heretofore unprinted, that will astound. This autobiographical historical fiction raises questions deep in the soul of every human being, gay or straight.