 Lanie sings in a grubby bar in Queens, but tonight she shows up five hours late. It s after closing and she has a proposition for scar-faced Ross, who runs the joint. She wants him to take topless pictures of her to send in to Playboy;it s the ticket out of her troubled, dead-end life. Gradually, she starts to come on to him. But when the reclusive Ross understands what she s really after, he turns on her. Only a mutual need to change their desperate lives gets them through this dangerous night.