A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a union strike leader discovers he is gay; a prostitute falls in love with one of her clients; a family cannot cope with the fact that their daughter is illegitimately pregnant.
True story of two diametrically opposed young women dealing with terminal illness.
Follows two wealthy families in Germany during the first half of the 20th century. One of them is German, the other one Jewish.
