巴黎，特警队长西蒙.维斯，如同每个晚上一样，开始他的夜间娱乐场所的例行巡查。这是他的工作。一个夜晚，但却与别夜晚不同......很快，维斯明白了有人对他设了陷阱。被警察的警察和流氓两者折磨，维斯要自己保护自己，对抗警察，生意人和罪犯。

Patrick Perrault, a photo-journalist covering the war in Beirut in the late 1980s, is himself caught up in the hostilities when one day he is picked up and bundled into a car at gun-point. Blind-folded, he is taken to an unknown location where he discovers that he is being taken hostage by Lebanese guerrillas.