by Danny Simmons & Floyd Hughes

85 illustrates the undercurrent of the New York City drug scene during its height in the mid 1980s. Crow, the son of a deceased police officer, is a drug addict who sells stolen art from his best friend Danny – a reformed addict – in an attempt to pay his rent and support his daily habit. While in and out of cocaine highs and lows, Crow encounters other members who live in the land of "Do-As-You-Please," a hazy hedonistic world of sex and drugs. After a reminder of how his father would be disappointed in his actions, Crow has a moment of sobriety, in which he is able to see his life in the gutter is not as delightful as he once thought it was.