Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

A Social Worker returns to the urban setting of his childhood with the hopes of making a difference, but must temper his altruism with the realities of the life he thought he left behind.

Khalil is an Arab diplomat who wants to not only make peace with Israel, but admit the Jewish state as a member of OPEC. This instantly makes him a target for a series of ingeniously conceived assassination attempts, most of which he foils with the aid of his friend Hamid and his girlfriend Nicole. But can he trust even them?