When Halley’s comet made it’s closest approach to the Earth in 1910, several people killed themselves out of contagious fear and panic. People started to confess love, to come out to the whole world, to celebrate sex, orgies or start to commit suicide or to get criminal. Let’s turn the most crazy, the funniest and intimate stories of the comet panic from 1910 and 1986 into a wonderful movie.

Chicago, winter 1965. The Regal Theater hosts James Brown and Solomon Burke, two monuments of Soul music. Backstage, everyone's under pressure. But in 1960s America, both men know their music has unexpected powers.