The film utilizes flashbacks of images from Libin’s first feature, The
Distribution of Lead (1987). On the night of the infamous Black Monday in
October of 1987, a group of self-styled revolutionaries carries out a
coup d’etat on their company in New York’s World Trade Center. The group
escapes with millions of dollars in bearer bonds. One of the members,
Fred White, leads the gang to hole-up at his sister Maude's Ludlow
Street apartment. During the all-night siege, Maude is shot and killed
on the roof of her building. Almost two decades later,
alcohol-soaked and guilt ridden, Fred hires cinema student Jimmy
Peterson for a 24-hour odyssey through the golf courses of Westchester
and on to Lower Manhattan, then a visit to Fred's estranged family in
Brownstone Brooklyn. Fred confesses his own guilt in the association
between Maude's death and the events of September 11th. Shooting
non-stop with his camera, Jimmy films Fred as he faces his enemy at dawn
on Gardiner’s Bay off the East Coast of Long Island. The soundtrack is
by John Zorn, one of the American masters of avant-garde jazz.