Billy: A '70s Story

Sometimes the family that saves your life is the one you never knew you had.

New York City, 1972. Eighteen-year-old Billy Johnson has spent most of his life believing he was unwanted. After years of abuse, foster homes, and surviving on the streets by selling drugs, he expects nothing from the world except another day of getting by.

Everything changes when a chance encounter leads him to Ethel Schiender, a lonely widow living in a Greenwich Village townhome. As Billy begins helping the elderl...