It's the boom years of 
the 1980s, and life is closing in on Nathan Seltzer, who rarely travels 
outside his suddenly gentrifying Lower East Side neighbourhood. While he
 tries to decide whether he should cheat on his wife with Karoline, a 
German pastry chef whose parents may or may not have been Nazis, his 
father, Harry, is plotting with the 1960s boogaloo star Chow Mein Vega 
for the comeback of this dance craze. Meanwhile, a homicidal drug addict
 is terrorizing the neighbourhood. With its ensemble cast of unforgettable characters, Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue
 is a comedy of cultures about the old and the new, about Latinos, Jews,
 Sicilians and Germans. It's about struggling to hold onto life in a 
rapidly changing world, about food and sex and about how our lives are 
shaped by love and guilt.

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