Stanley White (Mickey Rourke), um policial altamente condecorado e veterano da Guerra do Vietnã, se torna o novo chefe de polícia de Chinatown. Arrogante, racista e sem esperanças no futuro da humanidade, White utiliza de todos os meios para tentar garantir que a justiça seja feita. Assim, ele vai bater de frente com o violento Joey Tai (John Lone), um bandido ambicioso que logo se torna o líder do crime local. As ruas de Chinatown vão se tranformar no palco de uma sangrenta guerra, que vai quebrar todos os tipos de regras.
This film is made up of three segments that share no plot but have a general thematic relationship. In the first segment, Virginia and her three children are left by her shiftless husband and she is courted by an old beau who is now divorced. In the second, a divorced woman reacts to some unexpected revelations from her aged father. In the third, a childless, middle-aged social worker is swept into an affair with a young cab driver and finds herself pregnant.
