Also known as New York City Inferno, this incredible Jacques Scandelari classic is a fascinating fusion of documentary, narrative, and sex film! Structured around the journey of Jérôme (Christopher Dock) in search of his lover (Bob Bleecker) who traveled to New York City and never returned, this French production also serves as a study of late-'70s NYC's gay sex culture and locales. Along with its story and sizzling sex scenes – as Jérôme gets into raunchy encounters on the piers, in gay bar toilets (a scene featuring Boys in the Sand's Tommy Moore), a bathhouse, a meat locker, and more – it also presents an interview with a gay political activist and performer/drag king/poet Camille O'Grady fronting a punk band in the film's epically wild orgy sequence shot in the infamous Mineshaft leather bar.

As Jérôme's exploration mirrors that of his lover's, he has many eye-opening encounters, getting a taste of sexual freedom, a first-hand look at the state of gay liberation in NYC, and an introduction to the kinkier side of the erotic. This journey also includes guidance from a mysterious cum-reading oracle (Luke Morelay), accompanying a French woman (the very charming Daddy la Flippée) as she gets tattooed in an underground parlor, and the raucous Mineshaft scene (which serves as some of the only documentation of the bar's interior).

Attractively photographed by François About (Le Beau Mec, Strictly Forbidden) and compellingly constructed and paced, this gritty, kinky, occasionally bizarre, and artfully made classic is a historically significant piece from the '70s French wave of gay porn films.