Boys on Film 17: Love Is the Drug

A young woman from Orange County thinks she is about to have a fun night out on the town with her girls in Hollywood. Instead, she is about to embark on the wildest, most shocking and exciting night of her life. She encounters drag queens, prostitutes, drugs, sex, superstars and much much more after waking up on a bathroom floor at "3am In Hollywood."

When Ezra Tilden, a shiftless husband and notorious alcoholic, is accused of murdering Mark McWade, the community sets out to lynch him, but his courageous and strong-willed wife, Martha, admits to the crime. She tells the crowd how young McWade enticed her daughter, Sally, to a secret rendezvous; warned by Simon, she followed and horsewhipped the scoundrel, who, enraged, confessed to murdering her son, and in a scuffle, McWade was killed. John Mason, the sheriff, who is in love with Sally, appears to take Martha's part, and suddenly, Simon, a half-witted, deformed lad who has witnessed the struggle and who is dying from a fall, crawls into the crowd and confesses that he shot the villain to save Martha. Sally finds happiness with Sheriff Mason.

Because of writing is the story of an heroin addict writer lost in the maze of his own mind, haunted in the dark by Hallucinations, Illusions and a mysterious presence. His life is torn between a strong love for a prostitute, his wife's contempt and the passion for writing.