Cassavetes' first film as a director is set in the New York City beat milieu of his Johnny Staccato TV series (coffee bars, jazz clubs, arty parties), but without the formal necessity of a mystery plot. Light-skinned black girl Goldoni sort of has a romance with a white guy, her jazz singer brother struggles with being forced to MC for strippers at the club where he works, and assorted friends and hangers-on do not very much with a kind of urban energy that somehow makes even the meandering sequences intimate and involving.
Improvised and loosely filmed, with lots of on-the-streets verite and rambling but punchy dialogue, this looks more like a precursor to Mean Streets than the intense family dramas which Cassavetes came to specialise in.