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New York 1952. Mickey Jelke inherits a big sum of money and spends his nights in Manhattan, painting the city red. Night after night, he can be found in one Broadway bar or the other, in the company of disreputable persons like pimps and prostitutes. One day,a shady cop, aided by Mickey's own girlfriend, Patricia, decides to accuse him of running a prostitution network. A scandal breaks out.

This neon-soaked portrait of 1952 Manhattan trades traditional detective tropes for a slow, atmospheric crawl through the city's most disreputable jazz bars and back alleys. Instead of a frantic chase, the story lingers on the hazy, dangerous social circles where sudden wealth meets inevitable corruption.

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