In the sleazy, foreboding world of winos, derelicts and drifters in lower Manhattan, two young runaways-18 year old Fred and his younger brother, Kevin, live in a tire hut in the back of a vast auto wrecking yard.  The most lethal threat to the boys is the case of Tenafly Viper in Ed's liquor store window.  Ed found the cheapo wine behind a wall in his basement.  The stuff's forty years old, and it's gone real bad.  Anyone who drinks it melts within seconds!  And it's only a dollar a bottle!!