 Robert DeNiro and Jessica Lange are the most impossible couple. He s a failed lawyer. She s a common waitress. Together they get in a downward spiral, as they can t seem to deal with there problems. The lawyer just failed winning a case in court against a famous boxing organiser and he wants revenge by catching the organizer on his own territory: boxing. Although he knows nothing about boxing, with his fine talk he finds the help of a couple of people like the brother of his new enemy. But the relationship with his waitress doesn t make things double as hard.