1980, Rome's famous Cinecitta film studios, and wet-behind-the-ears "gofer" Gil Graham from Los Angeles meets British "gofer" Mike Smith. They're the Boys of Vice City and their tempestuous love affair rocks them to London - Disco City - splits them between Two Cities, and reunites them in the Fast Lane of London again. But Gil knows Mike has a past, that their nemesis, the movie mogul James Rosen, "picked Mike out of the gutter." So how does a privately educated Latin scholar fall so low? Boy of the West End takes Mike back in time and follows his trail of discovery, perdition, and eventual redemption.