She comes when he calls, and gets him out of one jam after another. But Lenny refuses Mace's love, just as Faith refuses his. The personal and the political are inescapably intertwined. When Lenny kisses Mace, at the very end of the film, he finally accepts the love that she has offered him all along. But the poignancy of this kiss also comes from the fact that Mace is black, and Lenny is white.
Miscegenation is the only hope the film has to offer.
We get a happy ending, on the personal level at least. But we also know how fragile that personal level is. The camera lingers, for a long moment, on the kiss. Lenny and Mace share the screen in close-up. Then there's a cut, to a long shot from above.