An introverted nerd and a violent jock vie for the attentions of a cheerleader.

NYC vice-squad attempts to bust a crime ring.

A loose fictitious of Charlie Parker's last years and a portrait of the jazz scene in 1960's New York. A black jazz musician bent on self destruction forms an odd friendship with a white college professor full of feeling sorry for himself.

A pair of Village beatniks goes up against a clan of moneyed squares vacationing on the Maine coast.