Ascending from busboy to bartender, Shane becomes one of the club's in-house stars who at the height of his glory drives around in a car with personalized license plates. The movie pussyfoots around Shane's rapid ascent. If it were honest, it would be the story of how a handsome working-class boy, upon discovering his sexual market value, calculatedly hustles his way up the pecking order and eventually gets carried away with his "stardom."