Deep in the jungles of Vietnam, a new threat is emerging as a former U.S. Special Forces commando is training the Vietcong in terrorism tactics. The CIA gets wind of the terrorist training camp and sends in the Phantom Raiders, led by Python Lang (Miles O'Keeffe) to take care of the problem.

A singular old man is torn-faced and broken. In earlier photographs he's eight feet tall and makes a very poor doormat, affable with the hordes. Now, he's hit his anecdotage, busy fending off obituarists. His only recourse to dignity is language.

Overlapping tales of the lives of the residents and visitors of one particular building.