TV producer Pierre Delacroix becomes frustrated when network brass reject his sitcom idea. Hoping to get fired, Delacroix pitches the worst idea he can think of: a 21st century minstrel show. The network not only airs it, but it becomes a smash hit.
Ben Crosby, suburban gas station owner struggles through the gas crisis, desperately trying to get through it, to keep it all together, to live with the choices he's made, to survive one more day.