Oliver Beck is 21, good looking, clean-cut and a product of an upper class family. He's also leading a double life—student by day and street hustler by night. When he meets Philip Kirsch, undercover cop working Atlanta's drug enforcement branch, secrets collide.

A boy falls in love with a horse named Flash that's for sale. He gets a job to earn the money to buy the horse, but he's forced to sell when the family falls upon hard times.

A man who makes his living by reading books to cigar rollers struggles to keep his job in the face of a new technology: the radio.

"On the upper left screen we watch a white bourgeois couple joylessly preparing for work: getting dressed, brushing their teeth, and eating breakfast. In the lower right corner we watch an interracial hipster couple—an Asian woman and white man—calling in sick and having sex. The alienation between the bourgeois couple is formally stressed by them being split into two frames while the interracial couple are framed together." (Quoted from Chris Robé's 'Breaking the Spell: A History of Anarchist Filmmakers, Videotape Guerrillas, and Digital Ninjas,' pg. 363)