Heart of the Old Country

In working-class Bay Ridge, Michael drives for a car service and gives lifts to his father, a former sanitation worker and current small-time bookie. He has a friend with a heroin habit, and a longtime girlfriend who expects they'll get married one of these days. Michael spends most of his time on the familiar streets where he grew up, but now he's crossing the bridge into Manhattan for some college classes-where he meets a seductive female classmate who seems to come from a whole different world. He is pulled in two directions, but it seems like he has time to figure it all out-until he finds himself in the periphery of a murder that will change his destiny forever . . .