Boomer é um policia novato no inferno urbano que é o centro de Chicago. Depois do seu envolvimento numa operação de apreensão de drogas que resultou na morte de Carlos, seu mentor e figura paterna, Boomer torna-se desiludido com a natureza brutal e desumana do seu trabalho. Por isso, ele decide pedir a sua dispensa do Departamento de Polícia de Chicago e voltar à sua cidade natal de Joliet, onde a sua noiva, Kelly, o espera. No caminho de volta para Joliet, Boomer faz um grave erro de julgamento quando pára para dar assistência a um motorista cujo veículo avariou. O ingénuo ex-policia é rapidamente atacado e deixado inconsciente. Boomer, quando acorda, descobre que o seu carro e carteira foram roubados, e que ele foi envolvido num perigoso jogo de identidades trocadas.
Three Asian men live in L.A. Isaac is a romantic coffee shop worker, who waits for the woman of his dreams, and loses his balance after meeting a femme fatale called Thaise. Slim is a Rastafarian smoking pot all the time, who is trying to elude a local mobster. Troy is an actor, who has to choose between his career and his girlfriend.
An ex-con whose share of a robbery disappeared joins forces with deluxe edition call-girl in order to get back the money she gave her accountant for investment purposes. The chase will lead them to the Carrabeans where they will have to go on a cruise...
Sixteen-year-old Cassie Robbins is a spirited teenage girl, who loves her father Richard and stepmother Mel and dotes on her six-year-old half-brother Willy. But her carefree, happy life is forever changed when she is diagnosed with leukeamia and her only hope of a cure lies in a bone-marrow transplant. However, when Willy proves to be a match, Mel is not-so-willing to allow her young son to undergo surgery as he nearly died the last time he was operated on after reacting badly to the anaesthetic. Mel and Richard now have to decide if it right to risk the life of one of their children to save the life of the other child. And of Willy's own rights in deciding if he should help the sister he hero-worships...?
