Bernadette Speakes
A Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Juilliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper.
Mark Thackeray (Poitier) is a West Indian, who in the 1967 film had taken teaching in a London East End school. He spent twenty years teaching and ten in administrative roles. He has taught the children of his former pupils, but is now retiring.
An unhappy introvert becomes addicted to a new dopamine pill called DX-127 in his pursuit of happiness.
