故事描述一位十九岁的少女萍萍,梦想能到日本的汽车零件公司工作,然而为了生活她必须靠在养猪场和为餐厅洗碗的两份工作糊口。而她的监护人阿姨田夫人,原来暗中经营婴儿买卖,专门安排少妇与外劳交欢,然后将生下的婴儿转卖给无法生育的夫妇,从而赚取利润。原本就和田夫人相处不融洽的萍萍,在得知了这种不法勾当后,心里产生了极大的冲突和挣扎。 Ping Ping is 19 and wants to go to Japan to work in a car parts company. She's under the guardian of her aunt, Madame Tien, who shuffles her between two jobs; working in a pig farm, and cleaning dishes in a rundown restaurant. Tien is also involved in a ‘baby factory’ scheme, pairing young women with migrant workers and then selling the babies for money. Both survive with each other in a love-hate symbiotic manner, until a truth about her aunt is revealed to Ping Ping.
故事发生在繁华的大都市纽约,一连串凶杀案的发生吸引了重案组的注意,因为案情牵扯到了同性恋者,因而在圈内引起了极大的反响,警方受到的压力越来越大,最终决定派出警员史蒂夫(阿尔·帕西诺 Al Pacino 饰),伪装成同性恋者打入圈子查找线索。
伪装的身份让史蒂夫感到不堪重负,每天对着形形色色稀奇古怪的男人,史蒂夫内心里的绝望和压抑渐渐积累,与此同时,他对局里严刑逼供嫌犯思齐普李(杰·阿克沃内 Jay Acovone 饰)的行为感到十分不满,随着时间的推移,史蒂夫的精神走到了濒临崩溃的边缘。最终,一条重要的线索渐渐浮出水面,然而这却并没能让史蒂夫松一口气。