"Michael and David were camping in the desert when the bombs flared on the horizon . . ."So begins this gayporn homage to the Mad Max genre, in which a pair of lovers (Michael Vincent and John Davenport) match wits (and libidos) against a marauding all-male band of post-nuke survivors.

The video opens with Vincent wandering the desert, desperately searching for Davenport; fever-dream flashbacks capture happier days of their sensuous poolside lovemaking. Vincent eventually blacks out from the heat (both kinds) and finds himself in the clutches of the nomads' leader (Tim Kramer, seen for the first time in years as a brunette—maybe the radiation did it). Kramer announces that Vincent will have to fight the nomads' new champion, another stranger recently found in the desert—and guess who that turns out to be ...

Sunstroke has a surprisingly good screenplay (credit to producer Jeff Lawrence and collaborator Ricky de la Strada), but Tony Matteo's direction is largely uninspired. His nomads are about as menacing as chicken soup; they all wear leather and engage in very mild (and inept) S&M games. Kramer has proved before that he's got the stuff to play the mean master, but he's largely inert here. The video works best when it concentrates on Vincent and Davenport, two relative newcomers to gay-porn who are exceptionally attractive and apparently quite responsive to one another, with no props needed.