For over a decade and on a near-daily basis, Otis Houston, Jr., a self-taught performance artist from Harlem, has performed before a captive audience of car-bound commuters passing through a natural bottleneck on Manhattan's FDR drive. BLACK CHEROKEE is a documentary short that explores this unique artist's work at a time of great productivity, and also significant challenge as he's charged with caring for his beloved father who's been diagnosed with Alzheimer's. A meditation on family, inspiration, sanity and success, the film is a lyrical window into Otis' deep sense of duty, his raw charisma, and the dynamic beauty of his art.