An African-American man working at a slaughterhouse in the Watts area of Los Angeles leads a dissatisfied and listless existence.

In 1950s Harlem a vicious Italian gangster (Frank deKova) tries to muscle in on a black racketeer’s (Paul Harris) numbers game.

In New York in the late 60s, a politically motivated group of students plans bombings of company offices who do business with dictators in Middle American countries. But when they…