Richard Pryor takes on three roles in this comic farce about a man whose life turns into a game of pinball when he's fired from his job. When he inadvertently joins a union, orange picker Leroy Jones (Pryor) is sacked by his employers. Setting out for Los Angeles to find work, Leroy has to leave wife Annie May (Margaret Avery) & family behind, along with over-sexed father, Rufus (also played by Pryor). While in LA, Leroy falls for union worker Vanetta (Lonette Mc Kie), & is given his job back when his former employers realise he's a soft touch. However, his new managerial position doesn't go down well with his former friends, & he soon finds himself alienated, all the while trying to spread himself between Annie May & Vanetta. Finally, just when he thinks life's getting a little complicated, he discovers his wife is pregnant by the Reverend Lennox Thomas (Pryor again), & bent on revenge, sets about seducing the Preacher's wife.