In the sleazy, foreboding world of winos, derelicts and drifters in lower Manhattan, two young runaways-Fred and his younger brother, Kevin, live in a tire hut in the back of a vast auto wrecking yard.  Life is hard for these two, but by far 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 40 years old, and it's gone bad...real bad!  Anyone who drinks it melts within seconds!  And it's only for a dollar a bottle!!  The bums are lining up for their deaths like moths at a flame, and Fred is standing right there among them.