Handsome audio engineer Eric Dunlap hired to install his strange top notch sound system with a mind of its own for an egotistical music conductor Kurt Hoffman, but falls hard for Hoffman's beautiful, neglected wife Veronica.
Self-centered yuppie lawyer Ted Miller reunites with Melody, a former flame who clings to her 60's hippie ideals. He lets her stay at his apartment, but she sees that he sold out his youthful beliefs in favor of greed and materialism.
Desperate transgender woman Nina Russell hires prominent, sleazy arrogant plastic surgeon Dr. Christopher Hamilton to create an attractive face for her. He operates on her after a night of drugging, when he is unfit to hold a scalpel.
Married Todd Fields teaches a high school photography class in a small quiet country town, but aspires to work in a big city and gets led astray when he falls under the seductive spell of attractive new student Roseanne Lucas.
Small-time crook Mickey aspires to work as a runner for drug lord Joey Stregga. To achieve this aim, Mickey sets up his innocent ex-hooker girlfriend Pearl on a date with Stregga but pays heavily for betraying her pure love for him.
Predatory electronics salesman Jack Rhodes uses a video dating service to pick up lonely young women for one-night stands, but meets his match in cunning enticing Barbara, who invites Jack on a date to her high-rise apartment loft.
Lew Bridgeman and Joe Caldwell are two longtime best friends who served together in the Vietnam War. Lew and Joe wind clashing with each other over Lew's fetching wife Rae, whom both men are in love with.
Faded playwright Arthur Brown uses electronic equipment to record private chats of other people as inspiration for his work. His subject Diane is having an affair with Carla Magnuson. When Diane's husband finds out, everyone is in danger.
Cold ruthless Kay Mason runs a garment factory and treats her illegal Mexican immigrant workers in a cruel inhumane manner. Kay meets her match in Victor, a handsome mysterious young Mexican in whom Kay develops an amorous interest.
Unethical psychiatrist Dr. Peter Milne gets romantically involved with unstable Sara Kendal. His manipulation of her mind and emotions makes her illness worsen. When she can't tell dreams from reality, he becomes her rage's target.