I think.) Melvyn wants to see the Pacific Ocean one last time before he dies, and Lake tries to make his dream come true. He becomes especially close - in more ways than one - to 81 year-old Melvyn (when a nurse describes Melvyn as being 'a very sick man' one might think as this is a La Bruce film that's to be expected, but she actually means he is very ill.
This is close to being all his Christmases rolled into one, because Lake is turned on by the elderly.
Lake (no really), a young man in his late teens/early twenties, gets a job in an old people's home.
Despite its subject matter, 'Gerontophilia' could mark Bruce La Bruce's entry into polite film-making society: in contrast to his earlier works such as 'Raspberry Reich' and 'Skin Gang' it is possibly his most accessible work to date.
