 At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially his intention is to evict the black tenants and convert it into a posh flat. But Elgar is not one to be bound by yesterday s urges, and soon he has other thoughts on his mind. He s grown fond of the black tenants and particularly of Fanny, the wife of a black radical; he s maybe fallen in love with Lanie, a mulatto girl; he s lost interest in redecorating his home. Joyce, his mother has not relinquished this interest and in one of the film s most hilarious sequences gives her Master Charge card to Marge, a black tenant and appoints her decorator.