A killer is brutally attacking several tenants that live in a high rise apartment building in New York City.
Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer/friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance performance. Gower agrees to take his place in the show by posing as a police officer. He falls for a female officer in the show and gets into various scrapes with fellow cops and also crooks. And he dances.
A pair of inner city youths go to work selling drugs for the power mad Spanish "Godfather" Enrico, who has his sights set on taking out Harlem's corrupt city commissioner.
