Five strangers are brought together by two seemingly unrelated events in this independent drama As an angry black crossdresser is brutally beaten in an altercation with New York City police five people look on at the incident Busy businesswoman Genna thinks little of it and she considers transvestitism to be a sexist parody of women Woronoff is a gay rights activist who is appalled by the attack even though hes unaware of the facts Sadie is an elderly woman caring for her invalid husband but she finds this attack on a stranger hard to ignore Malcolm a doorman at the building where the man was attacked regards the victim as a disgrace to the black community without examining his own place in AfricanAmerican culture