Get into the gritty and decadent world of New York's Times Square in the 1970s, as the business of pleasure begins its climb to become a billion-dollar industry in this drama series from the creative team behind 'The Wire(R)' and 'Treme(R)'. Seizing the chance to cash in on the rapidly growing flesh industry (and sometimes being consumed by it) are a vivid assortment of characters, including: Vincent Martino (James Franco), a bartender with vision and connections and his freewheeling twin Frankie (Franco again); Candy (Maggie Gyllenhaal), a self-made sex worker eyeing a new career in porn filmmaking; pimps C.C. (Gary Carr) and Larry Brown (Gbenga Akinnagbe); young prostitutes Darlene (Dominique Fishback) and Lori (Emily Meade); midtown cop Chris Alston (Lawrence Gilliard, Jr.); newspaper reporter Sandra Washington (Natalie Paul); mob capo Rudy Pipilo (Michael Rispoli); and disillusioned college student Abby Parker (Margarita Levieva).