At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially, his intention is to evict the black tenants and convert the building into a posh flat. But Elgar is not one to be bound by yesterday's urges, and soon he has other thoughts on his mind.

• The Mirisch Company
• Cartier Productions
• Beau Bridges
• Lee Grant
• Diana Sands
• Pearl Bailey
• Walter Brooke
• Louis Gossett Jr.
• Marki Bey
• Mel Stewart