Mungo Warner was exceptionally beautiful. Born in the prejudicial era of the 1940's, he was harshly treated by his father and abused by his tutor at Chester Choir School, where he is strongly attracted to an older boy. Mungo finds integrity in the acting profession, first at Chester Royalty Theatre and then at the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he has an affair with an American actress, who accuses him of fathering her child. He realises that he attracts the bad and the good of both sexes before he eventually discovers whether or not he is homosexual