The film centers around a group of elderly residents of an old San Francisco hotel and are threatened with eviction when a developer wants to demolish the structure.
Initially, they feel resigned to their fate, but a young desk clerk (Dailey) gets involved and helps spearhead a resistance.
[1] Bowen, who was 37 at the time she filmed Street Music,[2] conceived the idea during a lull on the production of Apocalypse Now, where she was working as a recording engineer.
[3] Bowen also recounted working as a bookkeeper at a run-down San Francisco hotel while beginning her acting career and seeing people being evicted.
[1] Reviews were mostly positive; The San Francisco Examiner's Nancy Scott called it "an intelligent balance between the bitter and the sweet," and says that it was filmed "with a clear, loving and unpretentious eye.