Logline:
When a lonely, disillusioned wealthy man poisons his first salad bar, he creates more than chaos in New York City. He creates the one relationship which may save him.
Synopsis:
Certainly, you’d never expect to find a gentleman from old money roaming the streets of the South Bronx, disguised as Eminem. But that’s exactly where he is when three Black thugs follow him, rob him of ten dollars, and demand to know why he’s there. Is it drugs? Business? Only when he’s driven to his knees at gunpoint does he reveal his motive: he wants to see how black people really live.
No, Tobias Channing would not risk humiliation over a class project. But a simmering dissatisfaction with life has been needling him. First, he alienates his beautiful black dancer girlfriend; then, he joins the board of a Harlem After School Program, which promptly accepts his generous donation and rejects his ideas for improvement.
When Tobias seeks consolation from his girlfriend, he finds her in bed with another man. No, Tobias doesn’t murder them; but holding them briefly at gunpoint, his last words to her are a phrase she herself once uttered: “When people don’t care, they get what they deserve…”
But in the heat of Tobias’s reign of terror, he meets the one person who’s alienation rivals and cools his own: the teenage daughter of the City’s lead investigator.
As the police close in on him, his new friend just might become his next victim.