En återblick till discoeran då populära Studio 54 under sent 70-tal upplevde sin absoluta glanstid. Vi följer arbetargrabben Shane O'Shea som avancerar snabbt från jobbet som diskplockare till bartender på Studio 54, ledd av delägare Steve Rubell. Diskplockaren Greg Randazzo och Gregs fru, Anita, klubbens garderobiär, blir Shanes nya vänner och han får chansen att uppleva romantik med såpoperastjärnan Julie Black.
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.