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Wine in the Wilderness opens during the tail end of a race riot in Harlem. Bill Jameson, an African- American painter, sits in his studio apartment, crouched down below the windows to avoid being hit by stray bullets. His friends, Cynthia and Sonnyman, have called him on the phone from a bar. Because of the riot, they were unable to return home. They have called Bill because, while at the bar, they met a woman they think will be perfect as a model for a painting Bill is planning.

Oldtimer, a man in his sixties, enters Bill’s apartment, carrying a bundle of loot he has taken...

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