A former family man and pianist studying at Juilliard music school, Romulus Ledbetter (Samuel L. Jackson), now suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and lives in a cave in Inwood Park, New York. He believes that a man named Cornelius Gould Stuyvesant is controlling the world with rays from the top of the Chrysler Building, and that his mind is inhabited by moth-like seraphs. On Valentine's Day, he discovers, left in a tree outside his cave, the frozen body of a young man, Scotty Gates (Sean MacMahon), a homeless drug addict who was close friends with his pal Matthew (Rodney Eastman). Ledbetter is determined to get justice for Scotty, and he's also eager to prove himself to his daughter Lulu (Aunjanue Ellis), now a New York City police officer.
A Crime/Drama/Musical/Mystery film
Directed by Kasi Lemmons
based on George Dawes Green's novel "The Caveman's Valentine" (also known as "Sign of the Killer, The", "Crime Shades", "Caveman's Valentine - Tod eines Engels").
starring Samuel L. Jackson, Colm Feore, Ann Magnuson