A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a union strike leader discovers he is gay; a prostitute falls in love with one of her clients; a family cannot cope with the fact that their daughter is illegitimately pregnant.

• Allied Filmmakers
• Bavaria Film
• Stephen Lang
• Jennifer Jason Leigh
• Burt Young
• Peter Dobson
• Christopher Murney
• Jerry Orbach
• Alexis Arquette
• Stephen Baldwin