Milton Berle prances around in a dress on coast-to-coast television. From his headquarters in Washington, D. C., Senator Joe McCarthy looks for Communists under every bed. It's the 1950s in America and Stevie Riley is wrestling with his sexual identity. But in the South End of Boston it's not easy to stand apart from the crowd. And Stevie must fight his way out of the closet, just as America must break away from the decade of suffocation.