Legendary filmmaker Hal Ashby makes his directing debut with this acclaimed social satire starring Beau Bridges as a wealthy young man who leaves his family₂s estate in Long Island to pursue love and happiness in a Brooklyn ghetto. When Elgar Enders buys a Park Slope tenement, he fully intends to evict the occupants and transform the building into a chic bachelor pad.

A woman who has adopted an abandoned child to give it a new life has to fight for him when his birth mother shows up and wants him back.