Mark D'Auria

La troisième guerre mondiale a pris fin et la guerre a été déclarée hors la loi. Pour régler les conflits, on met au point de gigantesques robots, les Robots Jox, qui entrent en action quand les grandes puissances se disputent le controle d'un territoire. Achilles, l'un des pilotes de ces Robots, est envoyé en Alaska...

Perhaps seeking a father figure as a result of childhood abandonment, Michael, who's about 35, carries on with older men a mix of affairs, one-night stands, and casual sex in public toilets. Joe, from whom he has recently broken, abuses him; his latest flame, a police detective, ignores him. His and his twin Joey's birthday approaches, and it triggers memories of their childhood and their illnesses at age seven, leaving Michael a bad heart and retarding Joey's mental development. He buys a birthday present for Joey, but in his melancholy, arrives late after his brother is sleeping. His mother still mourns her husband's leaving. A crisis and resolution ensue.