Growing up is tough on Berlin’s Gropiusstadt housing estate. No one can avoid the drugs and the fights. The summer is tedious, money is urgently needed, a theft goes wrong. No frills, just like Felix Lobrecht’s source novel....
马克思（James Woods 饰）是一家小型电视台的台长，为提高收视率，马克思四处搜罗带有色情或暴力内容的剧集。马克思的下属哈兰盗用卫星信号，获取了一档名为影视场的节目，内容为写实粗糙的暴力虐待场面，马克思看过这套节目后无法忘怀，对其他剧集丧失了兴趣。电台主播尼奇（Deborah Harry 饰）与马克思相识不久，这名有受虐倾向的女子也被影视场吸引，奔赴节目可能的产地匹兹堡欲参与制作。马克思经人指点拜访影视场的创始人布莱恩教授却没有见到真人，教授寄来的以尼奇为主角的录像让马克思产生了幻觉，马克思再度拜访始知布莱恩早已被杀死，现在的影视场节目由惊人视力公司的巴里负责，马克思一步步落入了巴里设计好的圈套，在巴里与布莱恩两种力量间越陷越深……...
The unemployed Duval is contacted by a mysterious organization to transcribe intercepted calls. He accepts the job with no suspicions, since it restores stability to his life, but it will soon result in political shenanigans of all kinds....
