Rebecca is a disgraced scientist carrying out illegal experiments to confirm the existence of and begin travel between parallel universes. She accidentally cracks the problem. Her counterparts in neighboring universes are also working on the same problem but they have their own agendas and things get out of hand.

Three black families, observed in their daily lives, their thoughts, values, and aspirations expressed on the soundtrack, and their different approaches to the struggle for survival in contemporary society and their methods of coping with the contradictory stresses placed on the individual in the family environment.