Abiding by a code of chivalry out of step with his time, Boothe yearns to find love, which he thinks will ultimately save him.

Jeff Gomez on Boothe: He's the character who I love most deeply, and who gives me the most heartfelt pain. I want to hug him, yell at him, tell him what the matter is and how to fix it, but I know that he's got to find his own way.

It is my hope to be able to follow Boothe through his life, looking in on him cinematically every several years much the way Truffaut did with his own foil, Antoine Doinel. Boothe's first real girlfriend, for example, falls in love with a "city knight," but her own insecurities force him to inadvertently reveal the dark chinks in his shining armor.