A boy growing up in 1940s Brooklyn finds an escape from his daily grind in the glamorous world presented on the radio. As he daydreams about movie stars and masked heroes, an aspiring actress tries to make her way in the medium. Woody Allen's drama, starring Mia Farrow and Seth Green.

The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.