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When a group of beat generation youth try to match their wits against gangster brawn to make quick money, they soon learn that the easy road out of purgatory often leads to hell.
1958 San Francisco. Struggling jazz musician, Frank Valentine, suffers a midnight beating, leaving his left hand paralyzed. Jobless, penniless, and desperate, Frank agrees to join his best friend, George, and three other buddies to distribute a gangster’s heroin for quick money.
What he doesn’t know is that George has more dangerous plans…
Inexperienced in the ways of crime, Frank quickly slips deeper and deeper into the dark vortex of San Francisco gangsters, junkies, and murderers for hire. To make things worse, Frank’s newfound love, a mysterious, dark-haired beauty, is somehow connected to it all.
And when it becomes clear that a crime syndicate is bent on their destruction, Frank and his friends are in a desperate run for their lives.
Genre: Mystery
1958 San Francisco. Struggling jazz musician, Frank Valentine, suffers a midnight beating, leaving his left hand paralyzed. Jobless, penniless, and desperate, Frank agrees to join his best friend, George, and three other buddies to distribute a gangster’s heroin for quick money.
What he doesn’t know is that George has more dangerous plans…
Inexperienced in the ways of crime, Frank quickly slips deeper and deeper into the dark vortex of San Francisco gangsters, junkies, and murderers for hire. To make things worse, Frank’s newfound love, a mysterious, dark-haired beauty, is somehow connected to it all.
And when it becomes clear that a crime syndicate is bent on their destruction, Frank and his friends are in a desperate run for their lives.
Genre: Mystery
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