On a hot summer afternoon in New York, Emma Jones gossips with other neighbors of her residential building about the affair of Mrs. Anna Maurrant and milkman Steve Sankey. When rude Mr. Frank Maurrant arrives, they change the subject. Meanwhile, their teenage daughter Rose Maurrant is sexually harassed by her boss Mr. Bert Easter and likes her Jewish neighbor Sam, who has a crush on her. The next morning, Frank tells Anna that he is traveling to Stanford on business. Mrs. Maurrant meets gentle Sankey in her apartment, but out of the blue Frank returns home in an announced tragedy.
Street Scene
Twenty-four hours elapse on the stoop of a Hell's Kitchen tenement as a microcosm of the American melting pot interacts with each other during a summer heatwave.
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