Langston walks into the Stingy Brim jazz cafe hoping to share his poetry during open mic night, but shares much more when he has a meeting of the souls with a blues singer everyone calls Uncle Joe. The elder bluesman is forced to retread painful footsteps left in the streets of Chicago as he and the young poet chart new territory in Detroit. Uncle Joe uses his many experiences with women to guide Langston as he rides love's roller-coaster with an older woman. Langston finds out that it doesn't take many steps in another man's shoes to find out why he sings the blues. Only a short distance along the trail he has tread is enough; a little dab a do ya.