菲利普（凯文·斯派塔斯 Kevin Spirtas 饰）和盖伊（Justin Ross 饰）因为一件绿格子衬衫而相识相知，很快就坠入情网的他们搬到了一起，开始了充满了幸福和快乐的同居生活。然而，随着时间的推移，两个人都渐渐暴露出了自己的真实性格，碰撞和摩擦日益增加，最终，盖伊无法抵挡外面花花世界的诱惑，他出轨背叛了菲利普，并且无情的抛弃了他。

This endearing drama depicts the lives of five gay friends — in conflict with themselves and each other — at the dawn of the AIDS era. Back in 1978 everything seemed possible. For Phillip and Guy, there was the thrill and exhilaration of first love. For their friends Devon, Jerry and Todd, life was still an open book with so many pages yet to be filled. Ten years later, his friends are all gone and Phillip is left alone to make sense of the joys and sorrows of his past life — as he looks hopefully to the future. The lives of two ordinary men who find love together only to lose it. In an era of easy sex and open relationships they have only two rules: Don't fall in love with others and no jealousy. Still rules are made to be broken. Eventually a single act of forgiveness restores their love.

En una época donde las parejas abiertas en el ámbito gay están de moda y el sexo está al alcance de todos, Philip y Guy pactan unas reglas para que su relación funcione: No tendrán relaciones con otros hombres ni dejarán que los celos aparezcan. Pero como las reglas están para ser rotas, ninguno de los dos las respetará dando al traste con su relación. Pero una terrible enfermedad, el Sida, les unirá como nunca, manteniéndolos juntos hasta el final.