- Three men, reared together in New Orleans, but whose paths have drifted apart, each face a crisis during the last weekend of Mardi Gras: Dr. Jason Kent must decide between accepting a chance to become famous as a research scientist, which will mean leaving New Orleans and giving up the girl he loves, Susan Corvier, or staying in his father's practice among the poor; Father Victor Carducci is refused permission to open an independent clinic and is thinking of leaving the Church; Punch-drunk prizefighter Joe Piavi is mainly operating in a survival mode and is trying to collect $1500 owed to him by his former manager Mike Hennighan. When he finds out about the debt, brash reporter Danny Farber, not above a double-cross when it means gain for him, needles Hennighan about Joe, and then tells Joe that Henninghan is threatening to send him to an asylum. The paths of Jason, Father Carducci and J!—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
- It's Mardi Gras time. Regardless, life goes on for New Orleans residents often with little or nothing to do with Mardi Gras, such as for Jason Kent, Victor Carducci and Joe Piasi, who grew up and still live in the same blue collar neighborhood. While their lives have veered away from each other, they still have contact with each other often in some sort of need. Jason has followed in his deceased father's footsteps not only in having become a physician, but in working at the local hospital in pure service to this community with little monetary compensation. Not wanting to end up like his father, Jason is going to accept a position overseas as a researcher in India working under his mentor, Dr. Surtees, he in turn asking his socialite girlfriend Susan Corvier to go with him. He won't go if Victor has anything to do with it, as, as a Catholic priest, he is putting together a proposal to the Board of the local diocese for funding to open a medical clinic for the needy of the neighborhood, and wants Jason to run it. Victor is staking his faith in this project. Jason also won't go if Joe has anything to do with it. A former boxer, Joe has turned to the bottle to cope in having sustained an eye injury, he not wanting to admit to anyone that he can barely see in only seeing the blurry outlines of figures. Jason, in giving him a few dollars here and there, is his only support, especially as boxing promoter Mike Hennighan has reneged on a $1,500 payment to Joe. Beyond the individual issues each of the three men is facing, their lives begin to converge stemming from an incident exacerbated by Jason's cousin Danny Farber, an opportunistic reporter for who Jason does not have the time of day.—Huggo
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