Worlds away from Sleep is My Hustler, a film with a plot, edits, pans (in short, as Stephen Koch writes in Stargazer, "a film without mystery"). It is an early and, certainly for its time, frank and unselfconscious film about homosexuality, slice-of-life in style if fictional in content. The setting is Fire Island; the plot concerns a young blond hustler (Paul America, "Warhol's inverted answer to Monica Vitti" --Variety); his possessive patron (Ed Wiener), and a woman neighbor (Genevieve Charbon) who makes sport of trying to seduce young hustlers away from their weekend lovers. In a central scene the young man and an older hustler, while showering and shaving, discuss at length the life of a hustler, its rewards and drawbacks. "A brilliant essay in male seduction, coquetry and friendship that affords great insight into male sexuality" (National Film Theatre, London).