Brooklyn street-kid with a passion for Beat poetry decides to relocate to Los Angeles following the death of his mother. Sebi (Ronnie Marmo) is an unusually perceptive Italian-American who keeps his love of Beat poetry a safely guarded secret. His friends have all packed up and moved to Los Angeles, and when his mother dies, Sebi decides to join them. Out in L.A., Sebi and his friends are truly fish out of water. Sebi longs to find a place to call home, and as he crosses paths with a variety of intriguing personalities including Beverly Hills rich girl Maddy (Natalia Livingston) and famed Bronx poet Gaetano D’Amico (Joe Mantegna), he finally discovers the courage to become the man he always wanted to be.