In Brooklyn, the bankrupted owner of a book store Fioravante is forced to close his family business. His best friend Murray tells that his dermatologist Dr. Parker dreams on having a threesome and would pay a thousand-dollar to have with her friend Selima. Murray proposes to be Fioravante's gigolo and they start a male prostitution business. When Fioravante meets the Jewish Avigal, who is the widow of a rabbi, they fall in love with each other. But the Jewish Dovi loves Avigal and will make life...

Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner...

1949, Santa Rosa, California. A laconic, chain-smoking barber with fallen arches tells a story of a man trying to escape a humdrum life. It's a tale of suspected adultery, blackmail, foul play, death, Sacramento city slickers, racial slurs, invented war heroics, shaved legs, a gamine piano player, aliens, and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Ed Crane cuts hair in his in-law's shop; his wife drinks and may be having an affair with her boss, Big Dave, who has $10,000 to invest in a second...