Clint Jordan gives an amiable performance as Virgil Bliss, out on parole from New York's Riker's Island prison. Virgil, a virgin and innocent in sexual matters, is introduced to prostitutes by the sleazeball roommate at his grim halfway house, and Virgil instantly falls in love with the first street-girl to give him a $10 blow job. The subsequent tale of woe is stoutly played, but there is something oppressively familiar in the way this hardest of hard luck stories pans out.