Five tales of inter-connected lives are dramatized in each of NYC's five boroughs on a hot summer day. A Soho fashion designer struggles in Manhattan. In the Bronx a woman dreams of the glamorous life her lover will provide while on Staten Island the roles of an Indian family are tested. A gambling Romanian in Queens envisions a better life for he and his wife and a Jamaican man in Brooklyn makes the mistake of pawning a valuable heirloom belonging to his wife.