A self-centred jazz trumpeter's single-minded ambition alienates everyone who cares about him. Spike Lee's drama, with Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes, Joie Lee, John Turturro and the director himself.

Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the aid of his manager and childhood friend, Bleek finds his world more fragile than he ever imagined.