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Brad Rainey desires of taking part in baseball within the monstrous leagues, yet Peggy tells him she is pregnant, and he's the daddy. the child dies in Brad’s hands, and all his desires disappear. Brad, uninterested in Peggy’s ridicule and domination whereas she flirts with their buyers within the deli they've got, drops out of her lifestyles in Reno.

Desperate for cash, he makes an attempt to rob a cripple in Merced. Fearing the police are trying to find him, Brad is going to Salinas. rather than renting a room, he is going to an all evening movie show to sleep there.
Carlos Nolan an Hispanic-African American youngster is making an attempt to conceal from an los angeles drug broker. on my own and hungry, Carlos sneaks within the theater and attempts to scouse borrow Brad’s briefcase. Brad threatens to name the police officers although he doesn’t are looking to seek advice from them any longer than Carlos does. while Brad realizes the boy is hungry, scared, and determined, he's taking to him to San Francisco with him.
Carlos goals of being an artist and sneaks into the school library hoping to benefit approximately black artists. He meets Dr. Cydni Bauer. He tells her his mom is lifeless and he lives along with his step-father.
Cyd suffering after divorcing an abusive husband teaches background on the collage goals of beginning a new lifestyles. Going to a neighborhood deli, she meets Brad, they usually start relationship. Brad suddenly ends the connection. She wonders if he was once mendacity whilst he acknowledged his spouse was once lifeless, and he's taking good care of a stepson.

Carlos invitations Cyd to a Christmas occasion his stepfather is giving. by no means equating the black youngster with the tow-headed small baby she visualized as Brad’s stepson, she panics whilst Brad solutions the door.

When those 3 meet, can their goals blend?

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