Sally’s estrange hubby Dave (Henry M. Robert Joy) return to her one day with the purpose of sell a big sum of cocain that he had steal in City of Brotherly Love and meet Lou (Cyril Burt Lancaster), an age former mobster who populate in wisecrack’s flat edifice and run Book of Numbers in hapless area of the metropolis; he besides act as a caretaker for saving grace (Kate Thomas Reid), an aged shut-in.