A high school faculty lotto pool places its fate in the lucky numbers they’ve played for ten years after hearing budget cuts have eliminated all their jobs.

A depressed musician reunites with his lover in the desolate streets of Detroit. Though their romance has endured several centuries, it is tested by the arrival of her capricious and unpredictable younger sister.

Elvis Martini is in deep shit. His dilapidated Detroit apartment building is about to be foreclosed on by the bank; most of his tenants are behind on rent; he’s in big debt to bookies and his daughter’s school. He finds some ill-gotten cash in an evicted tenant’s apartment and it briefly keeps the wolves at bay, but it brings out a bigger wolf, one that wants his stolen money back. When his daughter is kidnapped by the mysterious menace he’s accidentally messed with, Elvis has 24 hours to come up with $25K – cash only.

Three young women – Deena Jones, Effie White and Lorrell Robinson – dream of becoming pop stars and they get their wish when they’re chosen to be backup singers for the legendary James ‘Thunder’ Early.