Shot on digital video over a period of six months, Shafer was inspired by circuit party music in crafting the film.

The film opens with John (Jonathan Wade Drahos) regaining consciousness in a restroom stall at "The Red Party."

He stares at himself in the mirror and flashes back to when he was a small-town cop from Illinois who moved to Los Angeles, hoping to find a more welcoming environment.

Gill takes John to a party in the Hollywood hills, where he meets Hector (Andre Khabbazi), a hustler who is battling mounting insecurities over his looks and age as he is about to turn 30.

Tad shows his footage of Bobby to Gino (William Katt), who is an investor, to secure the funding to finish the film.

John follows Hector deeper into circuit scene, using a variety of drugs including Special K, GHB, cocaine, crystal meth and, suffering from body dysmorphia despite being in terrific physical shape, anabolic steroids.

Initially he agrees to let them stay until after the White Party so Julian can earn rent money and Tad can finish his film but then decides he wants them out sooner.

He and Gill also pursue a romantic relationship, but John, having stopped his steroid use, can't perform sexually because his body feels "soft."

Variety, while finding that the film is "unafraid to display the circuit's depressingly aimless hedonism and its seductive power for lonely bachelors" and suggesting that it would be of "immense interest in the gay [film] fest community", also found that its "sclerotic pacing and excessive length undermine its social ambitions".

The acting by the leads is described as "stilted" although work by supporting cast members including Allen and Katt is praised.

Overall, "the film itself is about something very interesting and odd that would probably work better as a real documentary without the insinuation of mediocre acting or a fairly trite narrative.

"[6] Conversely, the San Francisco Chronicle gave the film a positive review, saying it "succeeds as a well-made evocation of a subculture, though director Dirk Shafer's uncontainable enthusiasm for the world he's exposing blunts his movie's edge".

Although calling some of the sequences "banal" and "boring", the Chronicle praises Drahos and Khabbazi's acting and states that "here and there something happens that's jaw dropping".

The Times finds that although the film would benefit from editing and some of the acting is awkward, "there is a real subject here, and it is handled with intelligence and care".

The DVD features a "director's cut" with approximately ten minutes of additional footage along with a commentary track by Shafer.