A pair of inner city youths go to work selling drugs for the power mad Spanish "Godfather" Enrico, who has his sights set on taking out Harlem's corrupt city commissioner.

Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer/friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance performance. Gower agrees to take his place in the show by posing as a police officer. He falls for a female officer in the show and gets into various scrapes with fellow cops and also crooks. And he dances.

A killer is brutally attacking several tenants that live in a high rise apartment building in New York City.