The zany crew of a New York cable TV station accidentally bounce a signal off the moon, bringing them worldwide attention.

In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?

Vietnam vet Jon Rubin returns to New York and rents a rundown flat in Greenwich Village. It is in this flat that he begins to film, 'Peeping Tom' style, the people in the apartment across the street. His obsession with making films leads him to fall in with a radical 'Black Power' group, which in turn leads him to carry out a bizarre act of urban terrorism.

Swope—the only black man on the executive board of an advertising firm—is accidentally put in charge after the death of the chairman.