Traumatised by the death of an innocent. Killer for hire Bradley drops out of society, seeking meaning roaming the dangerous streets of a tough inner city ghetto. When he encounters a savage pimp and a desperate woman under his control Bradley finds the means to give battle to the inner demons that have eluded him. He embarks on a quest to save a young girl from the clutches of the brutal gangsters that trade human beings as currency. Drawn deeper into a sickening world in which age is no bar to exploitation and pursued by police, gangland villains and a mysterious agency known only as The Executive. Bradley discovers an ever deepening web of corruption and vice, and a dangerous game in which nothing is what it seems and no one can be trusted.
该片编剧为法雷利和《绿皮书》的联合编剧Brian Currie及Pete Jones(《嘿咻卡》),改编自纪实书《The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A True Story of Friendship Stronger Than War》,讲述John "Chickie" Donohue的真实故事:越南战争时期的1967年,26岁的前美国海军陆战队成员Donohue从纽约出发,去越南寻找正在当兵的三个儿时好友,给他们送去啤酒。
故事发生在密歇根州底特律市,杰基(梅格·瑞恩 Meg Ryan 饰)却仍然没有放弃探索生命广度的可能性,她决定成为一名拳击经纪人。长久以来,这一职业一直被男性霸占,如今,腾空出世的杰基能够获得界内的认可和肯定吗?果不其然,杰基的工作受到了诸多的排挤,但她永不言弃的个性使她渐渐获得了客户和同行们的尊敬和钦佩。
某日,杰基遇见了名为卢瑟(欧玛·艾普斯 Omar Epps 饰)的次中量级拳手,在一场街头斗殴之中,杰基发现了卢瑟身上隐藏着的拳击天赋。杰基说服了杰基参加职业拳赛,又找来了经验丰富的教练菲利克斯(查尔斯·达顿 Charles Dutton 饰)相助,三人在强敌林立的擂台上打出一条血路。