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Frankie Dunlan returns from Vietnam to find his life a festering sewer of poverty, hopelessness and violence. His wife is pregnant and hungry, his one-year-old son is sick and horribly deformed from exposure to Agent Orange, and to make matters worse, they're all being evicted from their run-down, hell-hole apartment.

Frankie roams the streets looking for work, but he's accosted by a street gang and beaten up, and his family is threatened unless he pays back a debt that's long overdue. His childhood friend is a strung-out junkie, aborted fetuses litter the alleys, underage prostitutes work the streets; the entire society has flushed itself down the toilet.

Yet Frankie doesn't give up hope; maybe there's a job at the unemployment office, maybe his father will help -- not a chance! At the end of the day, Frankie goes home where his wife confronts him with the facts. She can't take it anymore and wants out. That's when Frankie has an inspiration, a way out of the horror. In a tender, warm-hearted, feel-good story of justice and redemption, Frankie finally makes his peace. Or perhaps not.