 A young woman named Jennefer (Kari Wuhrer) regularly beaten and tortured by her boyfriend, gives birth and immediately gives the child up for adoption. This sets her on an escape from the lover on the streets of Toronto. Here she meets a hardened hooker named Ola (Rae Dawn Chong) who takes her in so she won t be arrested for vagrancy. Jennefer then decides to take up hooking to make money and has to learn to fend for herself and to protect herself from a demanding pimp named Hassan (Lou Diamond Phillips). When Hassan kills one of the street girls, it pits him against the others and against a detective (Lance Henriksen) out to bust him. Meanwhile, Jennefer s boyfriend, J-Rod, arrives in the city and relentlessly seeks her out to take her back... or kill her.