John Mazzola

マンハッタン、タイムズスクエア。自称一流のパブリシスト、スチュは、今日もアシスタントを従え、携帯電話からクライアントや業界に口八丁でビジネスをまとめ上げている。そんな彼はアシスタントと別れた後、1台の電話ボックスに立ち寄り、結婚指輪を外してクライアントの新進女優パメラに電話を掛けた。スチュは彼女をモノにしようとしていたが、上手くいかずに受話器を置く。その刹那、今使っていた公衆電話のベルが鳴り、思わず受話器を取ってしまうスチュ。すると電話の主は、“電話を切ったら殺す”と脅迫してきたのだった…。

It's New York City in 1981, and various twentysomethings are converging on a New Year's Eve party.

Michael is a 12-year-old drug pusher who lives in a crowded house with his cousins and aunt. His father has become a street bum, but still meets with Fresh on occasion to play chess. Fresh is rather quiet in a crazy world. Fresh's sister is a junkie who sleeps with the dealers that Fresh sells for. As the story progresses Fresh realizes that he doesn't want to sell drugs anymore, he wants revenge.

New York's Odyssey Detective Agency is hired by two different clients to follow two women suspected of infidelity. Ladies' man John Russo trails Angela Niotes, the elegant wife of a wealthy Italian industrialist, while Charles Rutledge and Arthur Brodsky follow Dolores Martin, the beautiful young wife of a jealous husband. Their respective cases are complicated when John falls for Angela, and Charles falls for Dolores.