Based on the stories of three of Brooklyn working class residents; a prostitute falls in love with a client, a man finds out that he is a gay, and a family have to deal with the illegal pregnancy for their daughter.
German director Eli Edel has fashioned a grim yet coherent and extremely well acted tale out of Hubert Selby's 1964 collection of short stories about misfits, criminals and outsiders in Brooklyn's Red Hook, circa 1952.