Nueva York, 1979. Shane O'Shea, un chico de 19 años, guapo y que lleva una vida monótona y anodina, sueña con poder entrar una noche en la discoteca Studio 54 de Manhattan. Se trata de un local muy exclusivo, donde sólo admiten a famosos. Una noche, el propietario del negocio, ve a Shane en la cola y ordena al portero que lo deje entrar. Le gusta y le ofrece un trabajo en el local. Allí, se iniciará Shane en el mundo de las drogas, el sexo y la música disco. Como otros muchos jóvenes aspira a codearse con la gente del mundo del espectáculo, con la esperanza de poder hacer realidad sus sueños.

A grim police detective embarks on a one-man crusade to track down a depraved sex maniac when a nightclub deejay receives a disturbing series of obscene phone calls. Finding himself getting far too close to the victim for comfort, the hard-boiled cop must track down the unbalanced pervert before he can carry out his sick threats...

After a tragic accident caused by the truck of the middle-aged Carl Lee where a woman dies with a crushed stern, he is arrested and sent to the county jail. His son PJ, who works washing dishes and cleaning tables in a restaurant, feels lost, without financial support to keep his father's house, and is fired from his job and evicted from his house.

Big Town Girls have dating service jobs long enough to learn that a society matron needs a boxer to perform at a party. They talk a waiter into playing the part and a series of accidents and tricks sends him on a boxing career.