 When call-girl Della (Liza Minnelli) gets caught in the middle of a drug bust at a hotel where she was meeting a trick, she is held hostage by a robber that busted in on the drug agents and the drug dealers. She gets rescued by vice cop Church (Burt Reynolds) who is accused of staging the aborted bust. Ex-ballplayer turned drug dealer Roger (Richard Masur) is in tight with corrupt vice cops and their superiors And the fireworks start popping.