Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's literary lions, but illness and ten years of writer's block have lowered his profile, almost to the point of obscurity. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious literature major, asks to interview him for her thesis on his work, her interest forces him to address the issues that he has avoided all these years, and stirs in him feelings he has long forgotten, much to his daughter's consternation.

A determined student murders his pregnant secret girlfriend and moves onto her twin sister who gradually becomes suspicious of her new lover.

Jazz trumpeter Bleek Gilliam makes questionable decisions in his professional and romantic lives.

An aspiring actress disappointed by her treatment in the movie industry turns to phone sex to make a living.

A not so popular young man wants to pledge to a popular fraternity at his historically black college.