约翰尼（基努·李维斯 Keanu Reeves 饰）是一名FBI探员，正在与老搭档帕帕斯（加里·布塞 Gary Busey 饰）着手调查一系列银行抢劫案。然而这个狡猾的犯罪团伙行事严谨精明，每次犯案均用多位前任总统的面具伪装自己。约翰尼手上唯一的线索只是帕帕斯的推理：罪犯很可能是冲浪爱好者。为了尽快侦破此案，约翰尼决定到海滩学习冲浪以寻找线索，在此过程中，约翰尼结识了冲浪高手普提（帕特里克·斯威兹 Patrick Swayze 饰）和泰勒（罗莉·佩蒂 Lori Petty 饰），他被普提的思想魅力和领袖气息所吸引，爱上了冲浪这项刺激的运动，并与一帮冲浪爱好者结下深厚友谊。然而，在种种相处的细节之中，约翰尼渐渐开始怀疑这帮优秀的朋友就是他要找的神秘团伙……...
A woman vanishes. Two men take to the road in search of her: they both love her. Why did she leave? Each one of them has his own suspicions, and hides them from the other one who—mysteriously—never truly becomes his rival. Neither is right—but is anyone? This sudden runaway becomes the hidden core of a number of fictions that the film delicately weaves together: the secret of t......
