故事发生在密歇根州底特律市，杰基（梅格·瑞恩 Meg Ryan 饰）却仍然没有放弃探索生命广度的可能性，她决定成为一名拳击经纪人。长久以来，这一职业一直被男性霸占，如今，腾空出世的杰基能够获得界内的认可和肯定吗？果不其然，杰基的工作受到了诸多的排挤，但她永不言弃的个性使她渐渐获得了客户和同行们的尊敬和钦佩。
某日，杰基遇见了名为卢瑟（欧玛·艾普斯 Omar Epps 饰）的次中量级拳手，在一场街头斗殴之中，杰基发现了卢瑟身上隐藏着的拳击天赋。杰基说服了杰基参加职业拳赛，又找来了经验丰富的教练菲利克斯（查尔斯·达顿 Charles Dutton 饰）相助，三人在强敌林立的擂台上打出一条血路。
Lewis returns to Oxford after several years absence and is reluctantly assigned by his new boss, DCS Innocent, to the murder of an Oxford mathematics student who was shot while participating in a sleep study. The key-code used to access the sleep lab was assigned to a fellow maths student, Daniel Griffin, but Daniel's math tutor has provided him with an alibi. Daniel is a maladjusted young man who will soon inherit his father's automotive empire. He is disruptive and has no respect for his uncle who now heads the company. The future of the company however rests on an impending deal with Japanese investors who insist that family unity is all important at this time. When two other murder occurs, Lewis must decipher a cryptic clue left in an old case file by his former boss, Chief Inspector Morse.
