A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgangers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.

Escaped convict Sam Gillen single handedly takes on ruthless developers determined to evict Clydie – a widow with two young children. Nobody knows who Sam is.

In New York, racist Capt. Stanley White becomes obsessed with destroying a Chinese-American drug ring run by Joey Tai, an up-and-coming young gangster as ambitious as he is ruthless. While pursuing an unauthorized investigation, White grows increasingly willing to violate police protocol, resorting to progressively violent measures — even as his concerned wife, Connie, and his superiors beg him to consider the consequences of his actions.

A deranged man hides in the attic of a new house and becomes obsessed with the unsuspecting family that moves in.