Nightclub pianist Joe Streeter, pursued by the Mafia and wanted by the police for the murder of his best friend, sets out to find his kidnapped sweetie and a mysterious packet of porn movies in the garish nightworld of midtown Manhattan. The kidnapper-killer (and perhaps reluctant porn-star) could be any one in the gallery of flashy urban grotesques who hang out at Joe's club, and he has only 24 hours to spot him. Pimps, pushers, winos, desk-clerks, bookies, gangsters, topless dancers, corrupt cops--the preposterously seamy cast provides brutal, kinky confrontations for Joe, and some good, dirty fun for the strong of stomach and grisly at heart.