A hit man in black struggles into an apartment complex. It turns out that the apartments are hosts to a cornucopia of characters. A couple are about to separate or play baseball. A woman maintains a schedule of screaming in order for the neighbours to ascertain that she is alive. A mother just wants to have fun. A daughter just wants to obtain high marks and then someone walks ...
Nikita, talented young dancer, enters Let's Dance competition to earn money for his brother's surgery but a brief encounter with a famous singer Liza, who hosts the competition, puts his chances of winning and even life at risk.
It's the fall of 1985. The intertwining tales of three 5th grade friends, Chris, Joe and Ted, unfold in the suburban paradise of Palo Alto, as the threat of a mountain lion looms over the community.