A portrait of Rockets Redglare, the colorful fixture of New York City's underground until his death in 2001. Redglare was the morbidly obese bodyguard/drug dealer to Sid Vicious and Jean Michel Basquiat, a stand-up comedian with a cult following, and an actor who appeared in over 30 films, including "Stranger Than Paradise", "Down by Law", and "Mystery Train".