Written by Mario Van Peebles, the film is about a rapper who winds up sharing his body with the soul of a dead fashion designer, switching between personalities every time he is struck on the head.

Chilly D (Mario Van Peebles) is a struggling rapper who has been stealing dresses made by Malmaison to redesign and give to his many girlfriends.

Making things even more difficult is the fact that every time they are struck or hit, they switch between their two personalities, leading to confusion and disorientation for people they bump into.

Van Peebles instead worked on theater and television productions, wrote novels and traded on the floor of the American Stock Exchange.

His son, Mario Van Peebles, wrote the screenplay for Identity Crisis during the production of Jaws: The Revenge,[1] and offered it to his father.