Nancie Phillips

Episodic story in six acts ("The Manly Art in Six Rounds") about young boxer Vic Bealer (played by Jon Voight) in search for some direction in his life.

Brooks Wilson is in crisis. He is torn between his wife Selma and two daughters and his mistress Grace, and also between his career as a successful illustrator and his feeling that he might still produce something worthwhile.

1962년 6월, 보스턴의 한 아파트에서 한 여인이 누군가에게 목이 졸려 살해된다. 디나탈리 형사를 비롯한 수사진이 나서지만 단서는 없다. 그런데 곧 같은 수법의 교살 사건이 5건이나 계속되자 존 보텀리가 수사 본부장으로 임명된다.