JR (Harvey Keitel), an Italian-American youth living in Queens, New York, was born and raised in a family with a strong religious atmosphere. Apart from watching Westerns and Italian movies starring John Wayne and others, he has nothing to do all day, and fights with a few gangsters in the street. , a small bar to spend the day drunk. Unlike most young men at the time, he was quite conservative about sex.
One day he met a local girl (Zina Bethune) on the street, and the two quickly fell in love because of their mutual love for Western movies. During the relationship, the girl was surprised by his attitude towards sex, but he increased the weight of his love for him. When people talk about marriage, the girl frankly admits to the humiliation of being raped, which makes him fall into the pain of choice
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