The inner-city struggle for respect bears out in the lives of everyone who deals with life in the urban streets. Jessica, a rookie cop, is all that stands between her ex-con husband [who happens to be a recently paroled graffiti artist] and the violence of the underworld. Maxine, a beautiful artist, faces powerful questions of sexuality. And Jordan, a tortured young boxer, figh...
This show is based on the book by the French writer Jules Verne. It is about a group of people who escaped from a Civil War battlefield by balloon and ended up on an island in the south Pacific. It seems uninhabited but a person called Captain Nemo is actually watching them all the time.
