The film tells a story that happened in a black block in Brooklyn on the hottest day in New York. The character played by someone is watching the landscape and talking nonsense everyday, then an old man named Meyer wakes up from his dream in the noise of the radio, next is a white fool called Smiley who is selling a photo of taking with somewhere, then Mookie who wears No 42 jersey counts money carefully and innocently in a warm room with ambiguous light, then three white store owners Sal and his two sons Vito and Pino appear, his two sons are always arguing about who should sweep the floor, then Rosie appears again, she plays Mookie's girlfriend, after quarreling with her mother in the kitchen, she goes back to the room to comfort her frightened son. Besides, the film keeps describing some trivial life details in the black gathering place. Although trivial, it is still a very good movie. The film tells that on a hot summer day, there is an Italian pizza shop and a Korean grocery store opened by Italians and Koreans respectively and all kinds of blacks and whites in a black block in Brooklyn. The racial conflicts between them draw a picture of contradictions in the contemporary American melting pot. The film keeps describing some trivial life details in the black gathering place, such as the character played by someone whose job everyday is looking at the landscape and talking nonsense, then in the noise of the radio, a old man named Meyer slowly wakes up, next characters include a white fool selling photos, a person wearing No 42 jersey counting money at home, and the quarrel among three whites, etc.