Ari is 19 years old and unemployed. Having crashed at his brother’s place, his day begins with masturbation and a hangover, which he seeks to cure with coffee and a joint. Immediately it becomes clear that drugs and sex are a significant part of his life. His brother Peter is a university student living with his girlfriend Janet and a roommate called George, whom Ari feels attracted to. Their morning conversation is interrupted by an angry call from Ari’s mother, who wants to see him immediately. Reluctantly, Ari leaves.
On the way to his parents’ house, he meets his friend Joe, who has a regular job and is about to get married. Ari hates the idea of committing oneself to one person forever and calls him a coward.
When he meets his parents, he is greeted by accusations and anger. Both of them feel unhappy: His father, a Greek immigrant, cannot stand living in Australia, and his mother is depressed because her children have left her. Ari confesses that he does not respect them because both of them do nothing to improve their situation.
After lunch, which his mother prepared for him, he walks to his aunt’s house. His aunt and his sister Alex are busy with reading coffee cups. After a short conversation, he calls his paranoid dealer Phil to buy some speed.
Having taken the drug with Phil, he heads back home and talks to his mother about his future. He says he wants to go to Greece but has no real plan--he only knows that he does not want the life his parents have and want him to have. He calls his friend Joe and makes plans for the night.
As soon as he leaves his parent’s house, the hunt for sex and drug-induced euphoria begins. At Joe’s house, he makes out with his sister Betty but offends her by saying he’d prefer if she were Joe. Ari and a group of friends who were waiting at Joe’s house visit a number of bars during the night.
At the first bar, Ari exchanges looks with a Greek stranger and gives in to his sexual desires in a dark alleyway. Rejoining his friends, who have engaged in a heated debate about political systems, he eyes his next target and starts dancing.
When they get bored, they move to a gay bar, where the sexual tension is getting stronger with every minute. Ari ends up having sex with Con in an abandoned factory yard.
The night continues with discussions about the music that is played at the places they visit and Ari supplying drugs to his friends while taking a variety of substances himself. Eventually, at a house party, he ends up in a bedroom with George. After having sex with him, he smokes a cigarette, and they engage in a conversation about Ari’s parents. While Ari thinks it is easier to lie to them about his life, George challenges him to tell them the truth about his sexual orientation and everything else that is going on with him because he needs to grow up and be independent. Ari, however, is so appalled by this idea that he punches George. Their fight ends quickly when Ari tells George that he would sleep with him again.
Ari realizes that his parents will probably be angry at him again for coming home so late, but he is relieved when he gets home early in the morning, and his sister tells him that his mother and father have gone to church. In the end, he lies down in his bed and stares at the ceiling without any thought in his mind.
