A hotel drug bust led by Detective Tony Church (Burt Reynolds) goes fatally wrong when his fellow detectives are slaughtered and $2,000,000 lands in the killer's hands. Blamed for their death, Church is kicked off the force. The botched raid leaves one surviving witness, Della Roberts (Liza Minelli), a prostitute from the streets of Chicago. Now the moving target of a psychotic killer and the only one able to identify him, Della tracks down Church in fear and desperation. Together they must race against time to clear Church's name and find the hit man before he finds Della.