一个前度毒贩基斯搬到休斯敦,来过新的生活,他现在的身份是一名已婚建筑师。可是以前搭档带着海洛因来探访他时,美好的生活就崩溃了,当他发现毒品后, 就马上把它冲走于排水沟。其后一批固执而难以对付的人来找寻毒品,他们包括基斯的前任女友,信奉拉斯塔法里教的杀手,一个爱好虐待他人的罪犯,,和一个凶恶警察……The movie opens in a Los Angeles convenience store one late Monday night, where a smalltime drug dealer named Nick (Aaron Eckhart) is trying to decide what coffee brand to buy. His ex-lover Dallas (Paulina Porizkova) and fellow hitman Billy Hill (James LeGros) are getting impatient and tell him to hurry up. Conflicts between Nick and the cashier (Luck Hari) ensue, resulting in Dallas shooting the cashier dead. Though the three attempt to cover up the crime, they are forced to also shoot a police officer (Bari K. Willerford) when he discovers blood on the ground.