Disc-jockey-turned-actor Bob Crane develops a secret personal life, focusing on his relationship with John Henry Carpenter, an electronics expert involved with the nascent Videocassette recorder#First home video recorders market. Encouraged by Carpenter and enabled by his expertise, Crane—a church-going, clean-cut family man—becomes a sexual addiction obsessed with women and with recording his encounters using video and photographic equipment, usually with Carpenter participating.