The Connection

A group of junkie "friends", most jazz musicians, have convened, as they regularly do, at Leach's New York City tenement apartment. Leach has ulterior motives in his hospitality as he expects the others to cover his share of their collective score, they all waiting for their regular dealer Cowboy to arrive with their next hits of heroin. The difference with this gathering is the addition of two others, Jim Dunn, a documentary filmmaker, and his camera person, J.J. Burden, the group allowing the two in in Jim funding their drug habit for the next week. Jim wants an honest depiction of the goings-on, which means they are to act like the cameras are not there, yet he wants to capture something exciting or interesting while directing J.J. to be mindful not to waste expensive film. What happens this evening is affected by Jim's admission that he's never touched illicit drugs, not even weed, and by Cowboy's ultimate arrival, this time with another unexpected person.