Chronicles the rise and fall of 1970s New York City nightclub Plato's Retreat.

In the 1800s, a stormy love relationship develops quickly between a young medical student and a woman believing herself to be the daughter of his scientist uncle, the student having never heard of her before their chance encounter and both unaware that she is the result of the scientist's illegal experiments with artificial insemination..

A young man succumbs to gambling fever.