Thug Black Bandit, escaped African slave Otha Benga, Indian sage, Italian revolutionary Luigi and naturalist Charles Darwin are the heroes of the tale of Hollywood stuntman Roy, who is injured after a failed stunt on a bridge. In a Los Angeles hospital, his fantasies are listened to by a five-year-old girl, Alexandria. But one day Roy learns that his beloved has betrayed him. He no longer wants to live and decides to kill himself.
New York, 1939. A young journalist learns that world-famous scientists are disappearing under mysterious circumstances. Teaming up with an experienced pilot and adventurer, she tries to disrupt the plans of a madman bent on taking over the world...
It's Thanksgiving, and retired intelligence colonel Frank Slade decides to celebrate the holiday by treating himself to a trip to New York City. Frank wants to treat his last "crowning exit" to the highest standards: an exquisite hotel, a luxury limousine, expensive booze and women of stunning beauty. There are only two problems. One: Frank is blind in both eyes. And the second: the colonel's worried relatives decide to hire a needy student from a prestigious college named Charlie Simms as a chaperone for a small sum of money. The last thing Colonel Slade needed on his trip was a "green" young man named Charlie. But it happened that the journey of these two stunningly different people changed their lives forever.
A sadistic pimp, Ramrod, brutally beats a prostitute and she dies in the hospital from the beatings. Tom Walsh of the vice police intends to put the bastard in jail and persuades the murdered woman's friend, nicknamed Princess, to help with the investigation. When arrested, the pimp escapes, and now only Tom can save Princess from the psychopath's revenge.
The story of the short life of Manhattan bohemian Jean-Michel Basquiat against the backdrop of New York's artistic life.
