The Tenants

The last remaining tenant in a condemned New York tenement Harry Lesser struggles against rising panic and escalating odds to complete the novel he started ten years earlier. Then he stumbles on a black man sitting typing in one of the deserted flats: Willie Spearmint soul writer. Touchy hostile and anti-semitic demanding then denouncing Lesser's critical help with his floridly violent tales of oppression Spearmint is exactly what Lesser doesn't need - or does he?