Young Ted's Misery

Young Ted's Misery is about sex, crime, first love and how adults take advantage of him. Ted tells his wife about his boyhood. He experiments with sex as a six-year-old and continues until he marries. His dad dies when he is nine years old and his mom gives him up. In a foster home, he has an accident, and has an out-of-body experience. He steals a car, robs a store with his friend, and they head for California. They get caught and Ted is sent to a reform school and later escapes. He gets a job at the Belmont Hotel, and falls for a young lady. After the hotel closes, he moves to New York City and joins a gang that shake down the businesses in their turf and has gang wars. There is a murder and, in the end, a friend gets shot and killed.