​Two buildings face each other on a block of abandoned, derelict tenements: one squatted at the request of the local community board to preserve the rotting housing stock, and another that wasn’t squatted but might as well have been, after a hustler takes rent from naïve newcomers and takes off, leaving them to take care of the building themselves.

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Resentment brews on both sides of the block, and conflict ensues as the buildings compete for the attention of a location scout looking for a backdrop for a film shoot. But plans to create a garden out of a rubble-filled lot begin to thaw relationships, and when a menacing guru starts recruiting punks and runaway kids to his cult, squatters and renters unite to defeat the danger. ​

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And when squatter boy meets renter girl, romance blooms in the bleak landscape.

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All against the background of 80s rock, punk, new wave, no-wave, and hip-hop music.