乔(托尼·洛·比安科 Tony Lo Bianco 饰)是一个包工头,他的儿子尼克(文森特·斯帕诺 Vincent Spano 饰)因为闹独立而怠工。同时,两个骗子博比(杰斯·亚历山大 Jace Alexander 饰)和齐普拉抢劫了马德的电子仪器商店,而这个抢劫案是由当地无赖卡尔(约翰·塞尔斯 John Sayles 饰)一手策划的。乔拥有L 街的产权,但市长对他施加压力,要求他拆除L街,因为市长急于开发这个地区,以应对检察官对市政府腐败现象的压力。
黑人市政会成员温(乔·莫顿 Joe Morton 饰)安排他的亲戚弗兰克林为马德的电子仪器商店做夜间看守。然而,抢劫案出了差错,弗兰克林成功抓住了博比和齐普,但尼克却侥幸逃脱。与此同时,在L街上,黑人小伙子德斯蒙德和蒂托受到坏警察的骚扰。由于不满,蒂托在公园里抢劫了和温的妻子里莎一起工作的教授莱斯。
The story revolves around Luisa Palmeira, born in France from Portuguese immigrants. In 1979, Luisa is eight years old. Almost a grown-up in the eyes of her illiterate mother, she remains just a little girl to her hard-drinking father. One day, he trusts her with a heavy secret he suffers from a serious illness. But she refuses to believe him and thinks instead that he is hiding something else from her…
Jae-hyeon is about to return to university after military service and making moneny by selling sweet potatoes. One day a regular customer and call girl Hye-ri asks him to be friends and Jae-hyeon, who was interested in her, says yes. One evening he sees her getting beaten up by her pimp husband and Jae-hyeon rushes to help her. They get close from this point on and spends a nig...
故事发生在一个地处偏远的小镇之上,汤姆(Robert Milli 饰)的莫名失踪让警员约翰(唐纳德·萨瑟兰 Donald Sutherland 饰)百思不得其解,富有责任心和正义感的他决定追踪此案。汤姆在失踪前曾经和一位名叫丹尼尔斯(简·方达 Jane Fonda 饰) 的应召女郎有着密切的联系,根据一封两人之间的情书,约翰来到了纽约。
在监视丹尼尔斯的过程中,约翰在这个神秘的女人身上发现了许多可疑之处,她似乎也正在追踪着什么人。之后,又一名受害人的出现让整个案件开始变得险恶起来,而随着调查的深入,一位名叫柯博尔(Charles Cioffi 饰)的男子浮出了水面,他是否就是约翰正在苦苦寻找的那个人呢?