Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  Kua mahi tahi ia ki a Mae West, i whakawātea i a ia i te rama nui i runga i te Great White Way, ā, i poipoi anō ia ki a Rita Hayworth - ā, ināianei kei te tohatoha a Ryan i ana kōrero mō te oranga i te wā koura o Hollywood. Ko te raruraru anake ko Ryan he tamaiti 10-tau-tau mai i Muskogee, Oklahoma i whanau ki nga matua Papatito. Ko te oranga whakamiharo e whakaahuatia ana e ia, no te kaitapere me te kaihoko Hollywood a Marty Martin. E mea ana a Ryan ko tōna oranga o mua. Ko tōna mōhiotanga nui, ko ōna maharatanga ora, ko ōna whakaahuatanga tino tika o taua wā, kua whakaponohia e ngā mātanga, tērā pea i whakaahuatia anō te taitama. Panuku ki raro mō te ataata. Ko Ryan (i runga ake nei me tona whaea) he tamaiti 10-tau-tau mai i Muskogee, Oklahoma me nga matua Papatito e kii ana kua whanau ano ia, he kaiwhakaari me te kaihoko i roto i te oranga o mua. E whakapono ana ia ko ia a Marty Martin (maui), i te kiriata Mae West (matau) Night After Night me te mahi i Broadway. I tīmata katoa mai i te wā e 4 noa iho ngā tau o Ryan, e ai ki tana whaea a Cyndi ki Today. E ai ki a ia, i tīmata ia ki te whai i ngā moemoea kino e kore ai ia e taea e ia, e tana tāne rānei, he pirihimana ā-rohe, te kimi huarahi hei whakamutu. Ka kōrero ia e pā ana ki tōna ngakau e pupuhi ana, ā, nui atu i te katoa, ki Hollywood, he wāhi e hia mano maero te tawhiti mai i Oklahoma. He aha te ake, ka korero tonu te taitamariki tūmataiti i roto i te tikanga take-o-tuhi i roto i enei wa. Kātahi, i muri i te tau o tēnei, ka noho ia ki tōna māmā. 'Ka mea ia, "Mā, he mea tāku e hiahia ana ki te korero ki a koe, '" ka mea a Cyndi. He tangata kē ahau i mua. I te mea i whakaarahia a Baptist, kaore a Cyndi i whakapono ki te reincarnation, ki nga oranga o mua ranei, ka whakatau ki te huna i te whakaaetanga a tana tama ki tona papa. Engari ka paku haere tana hiahia, ā, ka tino whakapono ia i te nui o te kōrero a tana tama ki a Hollywood, ki ana marenatanga e rima, ki ngā haerenga papai ki Uropi, ki ōna kāinga o mua, me te āhua o te whakarerekē haere o ana kiritaki kaiwhakaari i o rātau ingoa whakamutunga, nā reira i whakatau ia ki te tīmata ki te rangahau i a Hollywood i te wā o te whare wānanga, ā, ka tiritiri i ētahi o ngā pukapuka i kitea e ia i te whare pukapuka o te rohe ki tana tama. Kātahi, i tētahi rā, ka kitea e Ryan...
Ko Ryan, 10 tau, he tamaiti no Muskogee, Oklahoma, he matua Papatito, e kī ana kua whakaahuatia ia, ā, he kaiwhakaari, he māngai hoki ia i tōna oranga o mua. I kī ia ko Marty Martin ia, i te kiriata a Mae West 'Night After Night' i whakatangihia ki Broadway, i muri i tana kitenga i a ia i roto i tētahi pikitia tonu. I tīmata a Ryan ki te kite i a Tākuta Jim Tucker i muri tata mai, he tohunga hinengaro tamariki e tino whakaute ana e mahi ana ki ngā tamariki e mahara ana ki ngā oranga o mua. Ahakoa ko Tākuta Tucker i miharo ki te kōrero a Ryan, ā, i kitea e 55 o ana taipitopito e ōrite ana ki te oranga o Martin. I tua atu, he kaitapere pōhara a Martin, kāore he tuhinga o ngā wāhanga e pā ana ki a ia, ā, i hiahiatia he kaitiaki kiriata kia mōhio ai ki tōna ingoa. I mohio hoki a Ryan ki te tau i whanau ai a Martin, ahakoa i tuhia hē i runga i tana tiwhikete mate tūmatanui.