Friends and family of a married black architect react in different ways to his affair with an Italian secretary.

"It's the hottest day of the summer. You can do nothing, you can do something, or you can..." On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.

"This life was so close to never happening" Cornered by the DEA, convicted New York drug dealer Montgomery Brogan (Norton) reevaluates his life in the 24 remaining hours before facing a seven-year jail term.

The biopic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader.