História da vida de Jimmy Hoffa (Jack Nicholson), um poderoso líder sindical, que desapareceu misteriosamente, sem nunca ter sido encontrado. Mostra sua luta para construir um sindicato trabalhista, seu envolvimento com a máfia e o tempo que passou na prisão. Personagens reais se misturam com fictícios.
Blue is a teenage girl who lives with her Jazz playing father Ham. Ham gets very sick and dies, and now Blue must support herself somehow. Elle, the headmistress at a brothel, talks her into living and working at her establishment. She decides to leave the business and lead a normal life. Elle is hellbent to see that she never has one.