索菲·安德森是一家腐败制药公司知识产权案的首席律师。当她的导师兼老板布鲁斯·亨肖被绑架时，索菲成了一个精心策划的小卒，这个阴谋危及了她的案件，甚至更多。苏菲与时间赛跑，为了救布鲁斯，逃掉那些设陷阱诱捕她的致命陷阱。

电脑文书保罗（Griffin Dunne 饰）下班后去餐厅宵夜，他手上的《北回归线》让邻座的神秘女子玛西（Rosanna Arquette 饰）上前搭讪，玛西留下电话号码，并向他介绍与自己合租的女雕塑家琦琦。保罗为追求一段艳遇，在午夜时分拨通了玛西的电话，玛西家中因纸糊雕塑显得凌乱不堪，她本人则急于喋喋不休的倾诉，让保罗无法得逞，保罗不能忍受那个没有露脸的男人“富兰克林”与玛西的神经质表现，在急欲返家之时，却又卷入了连串麻烦，与酒吧老板、酒吧女招待、朋克青年们、两名窃贼、开冰激凌车的女青年等等纠缠不清，似乎在这个夜里，所有人都在妨碍保罗回家。 本片获1986年戛纳电影节最佳导演奖，1986年独立精神将最佳导演奖。

Siren Phillips has lived her life thinking she's an ordinary girl, in an ordinary town. On the eve of her twelfth birthday, however, she learns that she is far from ordinary. Destined to turn into a Mermaid at the age of twelve, Siren must struggle with her new reality, saying good-bye to her mother and friends, while she transitions into the water. To make matters worse, a group of hunters are trying to catch her. She soon becomes friends with Adam Wilts, a new boy at school, who she turns to for help. He agrees to help her, but finds himself caught in the middle, when it's his own father who is after Siren. When Siren's mother is taken, the town must rally behind her, and help her make a peaceful transition into the water, before the hunters can find out where she is.