Jazz and decolonization are entwined in this historical rollercoaster that rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against the murder of Patrice Lumumba.
During the 1960s, two American ex-pat jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in-love with two American tourist girls.
A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.