Mr Brown

Mr Brown is a middleaged handicapped black man former athlet in a wheel chair He endlessly listens to music reads books and looks out the window to oversee the roofs of neighboring houses in Harlem Nothing breaks his monotonous loneliness except for the visits of two helpers a young Russian womansocial worker and a young black manhome attendant who merely do their duties But in Mr Browns imagination they all have a passionate affair He feels that the home attendant loves the social worker but is very jealous of her because she is madly in love with her subject Mr Brown and Mr Brown himself is in love with the home attendantboy These relationships develop gradually over continuous visits of two helpers And in Mr Browns world their passion is expressed through the dance Unable to withstand the energy of love and possession Mr Brown kills the home attendant and sinks into a prison of his loneliness and wheel chair