在为公司勤勤恳恳工作了十五年之后，亨利（让-皮埃尔·利奥德 Jean-Pierre Léaud 饰）却落得了一个被解雇的悲惨下场。心中充满愤懑的他在生活里也四处碰壁，绝望之中，他想到了自杀。可是，无论他使用什么法子，都无法成功赴死，就在这时，他在报纸上看到了一间聚集着黑道分子和杀手的小酒馆，他决定去那里试一试。
亨利雇佣了一名杀手（肯尼斯·考利 Kenneth Colley 饰），让他来取自己的性命，然而，在此之后，亨利意外的邂逅了名叫玛格丽特（Margi Clarke 饰）的美丽卖花女孩，两人迅速擦出爱情的火花。生命有了继续下去的意义，亨利不想死了，然而，他却怎么也找不到当初和他签订了合约的杀手，这也就意味着，从此刻开始，他随时都有可能遭到杀手的暗杀。

Two Soviet sailors, Peter and Sergei, go ashore in Liverpool to spend one night on the town. Peter can speak a minimal amount of English but it's enough to make contact with two Liverpudlian natives, Elaine and Theresa. Elaine and Peter immediately fall in love with each other, but the night is short and they must leave with the ship. Elaine can't forget him and writes a letter to Leonid Brezhnev, asking him to make it possible for them to reunite. Written by Mattias Thuresson