表面看来,杰奇(帕姆·格里尔 Pam Grier 饰)是一名普通的空姐,然而,在暗地里,她一直利用职务之便,帮助军火商奥德尔(塞缪尔·杰克逊 Samuel L. Jackson 饰)运送赃款,并从中获取暴利。一次意外中,杰奇的“生意”曝光了,她本人亦遭到了逮捕。得知此事,奥德尔派出了马克斯(罗伯特·福斯特 Robert Forster 饰),想要杀人灭口。
让奥德尔没有想到的是,马克斯竟然疯狂的爱上了杰奇,两人一拍即合,策划了一场阴谋将奥德尔耍得团团转,甚至派出了心腹梅兰妮(布里吉特·芳达 Bridget Fonda 饰)和路易斯(罗伯特·德尼罗 Robert De Niro 饰)助其一臂之力。然而,当奥德尔发现自己受骗之时,他才发现,事态的发展早已经脱离了他的掌控。
ynopsis from Time Out Film Guide: Between the seemingly idyllic opening and closing scenes depicting a rural community, first at church, then at the village festival, Fleischmann attacks that community's prejudices and ignorance without remorse. His very precisely observed portrait of Bavarian life begins with little more than a display of the villagers' constant ribbing, bawdy humour, continuous gossip, and more than a hint of their slow-wittedness. With the return of a young man, their idle malice and childish clowning, always on the edge of unpleasantness, receive some focus: quite without foundation, the lad is victimised as a homosexual. The crippling conformity of their ingrained conservatism leads the villagers to reject anything 'different': a young widow is ostracised, more for her crippled lover and idiot son than her morals; a teacher is frozen out because she's educated; the casual destruction of the young 'homosexual' is given no more thought than the cutting up of a pig. Not Germany in the '30s but the '70s; nevertheless the political parallels are clear. An impressive film.