An intense stare crosses Waters' face as he looks at something. Waters gets out walks toward more police cars and a crime scene. The Latina identifies herself as a detective. The two women blame each other for the mishap and make racial jibes. She gets out of the car and goes to the cop and the other driver, an Asian woman. A Latino woman in the driver's seat of the car, Ria, mentions they were hit from behind and spun around. A black man, Detective Graham Waters, speaks dazedly about the nature of Los Angeles and the need for people to crash into each other.The synopsis below may give away important plot points. Among the players are: the Caucasian district attorney, who uses race as a political card his Caucasian wife, who, having recently been carjacked by two black men, believes that her stereotypical views of non-whites is justified and cannot be considered racism the two black carjackers who use their race both to their advantage and as an excuse partnered Caucasian police constables, one who is a racist and uses his authority to harass non-whites, and the other who hates his partner because of those racist views, but who may have the same underlying values in his subconscious a black film director and his black wife, who believes her husband doesn't support their black background enough, especially in light of an incident with the racist white cop partnered police detectives and sometimes lovers, one Hispanic female and the other black male, the latter who is dealing with a drugged out mother that feels he isn't concerned enough about taking care of family an East Asian man who is run over but who is hiding some valuable cargo in the back of his van a Persian store owner, who feels he isn't getting satisfaction from American society when his store is robbed time and time again and a Hispanic locksmith, who just wants to keep his family, especially his young daughter, safe in a seemingly unsafe world. Over a thirty-six hour period in Los Angeles, a handful of disparate people's lives intertwine as they deal with the tense race relations that belie life in the city. Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.