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Harvey Sawler raises the curtain on the cultural underworld of New York stagehands through the madcap life of Joe ‘Rocks’ (Rockwell) Zottarelli. Joe is a true-life, second-generation legend within the ranks of IATSE Local One, ground zero of the world-wide International Association of Stage and Theatrical Employees.
Joe storms through a fragmented late-night lifestyle entangled with the union’s dark side, and partying with Broadway’s and early television’s biggest celebrities. The domestic side of his life in suburban Long Island is merely a periodic checkpoint toward reality.
Although a hard-working union brother to the core, at heart, Joe is a storyteller. He spends his entire life longing to be an artist and children’s author, dreams that are early dashed by a conservative father intent on ensuring Joe followed him into show business.
But Joe need only peer inside himself to realize that choices made in life either pave the avenue to contentment or lead to the road of lost desires.