Sands is a Frank Sinatra wannabe and a raconteur spilling out stories from his checkered career. He may be burned out on the present from ill health and crummy venues as he prepares for his act backstage in an alley, but, ah, the past, the glorious past, he savors. He leads us down memory lane, more specifically through the boulevards and back alleys of Los Angeles, places where the strip joints, nightclubs and 24-hour coffee shops of yesteryear proliferated..."