In a decaying tenement, a writer named Harry Lesser is consumed by his long-overdue novel, while a black militant and aspiring writer, Willie Spearmint, moves in to pursue his own literary ambitions.
The Tenants
Two novelists from different backgrounds, an African-American militant writer and a Jewish novelist, form an unlikely friendship in a crumbling tenement as they grapple with their own creative struggles, but their relationship is eventually strained by inner conflicts.