Hero

The Story

In a Manhattan Steakhouse with his high-ceilinged dining room, linen-covered tables, and its filthy, sweaty kitchens, an aging waiter jokingly nicknamed 'Hero' - moves with numbed silence through his litany of service. Surrounded by cynical bosses and a backstabbing, wisecracking kitchen crew - the Bolivian, Castro the Cuban, Hussein, Frankenstein, and young Andy, the incompetent newcomer who becomes his charge - Hero is a unique figure, once a successful college graduate but now a down-and-out loner whose alcoholic past haunts him and whose future seems to be only the greasy present. In an atmosphere of envy, anger, and lurking torment for any who would show a sign of weakness. Hero must risk an old man's precarious all in order to redeem himself, to win honor in his restaurant world, and to earn the ridiculous name which is not his own.