 A vending machine robbery by small time thief and drug addict Bobbie ( Vincent Kartheiser  (qv)) goes badly awry and his friends contact street-wise thief and sometime drug user Mel ( James Woods  (qv)) to patch him up. Recognizing a kindred spirit Mel befriends Bobbie and his girlfriend Rosie ( Natasha Wagner  (qv)) and invites them to join him and his long-suffering girlfriend Sid ( Melanie Griffith  (qv)) on a drugs robbery which should set them up for life. The seemingly simple robbery is a great success but the sale of the drugs afterwards fails badly and Mel and Bobbie are shot. The four take refuge with the Reverend ( James Otis  (qv)) who charges them half of their haul from the drugs robbery to care for them. In a desperate attempt to recover their losses Mel involves the crew in an ill-advised jewellery robbery with Jewels ( Lou Diamond Phillips  (qv)) which goes disastrously wrong and the crew become caught up in web of violence that rapidly spirals out of control.