Several stories interweave during two days in New York involving a collection of inter-related characters, a police detective with a drugged out father and a thieving younger sister, two car thieves (white this time) who are constantly theorizing on society and race, the black district attorney and his irritated and pampered wife, a racist white veteran cop (caring for a sick father at home) who disgusts his more idealistic younger partner, a successful Hollywood director and his wife who must deal with the racist cop, a Persian-immigrant father who buys a gun to protect his shop, a Hispanic locksmith and his young daughter who is afraid of bullets, and more.