An actor cast as a priest has difficulty executing a prayer scene he has to film due to his inner turmoil. He is troubled by a failed love story and exasperated by his housing situation – he lives in the same apartment as an intrusive mother. At the intersection of these events in his life, the man seems to undergo a spiritual transformation, presented in a way that is devoid of sentimentality.
A middle-aged couple has a drifter enter their lives. The fish-store owners find that the mysterious young man awakens the couple in ways they didn't expect.
Corky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building, meets a couple living next door, Caesar, a paranoid mobster, and Violet, his seductive girlfriend, who is immediately attracted to her.
