Sebastian B?ll, a doctor turned street photographer, invests all he has on the renovation of a grand art gallery. But the pondered cultural renaissance, more hype than reality, results in rotund business failure, causing his beautiful but insipid fianc? to desert. Dr. B?ll is left in the middle of a war foreign speculators wedge against the residents of the historic Commerce Building-pioneers of the downtown gentrification. Simultaneously takes place the theft of a monumental triptych depicting the history of homelessness. The heist will, again, change his life.
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