"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.

"The wrong man. In the wrong place. At the right time." An unorthodox and irreverent DJ begins to shake up things when he is assigned to the US Armed Services Radio station in Vietnam.

"The first casualty of war is innocence." A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.