Los Angeles in the 1950s was a city full of various "transactions", and people from all walks of life might come together driven by interests. Eddy, a young police academy graduate, is ambitiously trying to make his mark in the police world. All this is for a secret in his heart, that is, to find out the rape "Lulu Tumac" who shot and killed his father in the past; For this reason, he will not hesitate to sell his colleagues and superiors in order to obtain his own interests.
Soon, Ed was exceptionally promoted to sheriff due to his outstanding performance. Narcotics Detective Jack is known as a "police star". He and gossip news reporters embarrassed him, specializing in exposing the peachy news of Hollywood stars in order to earn generous extra money. At the same time, Jack is good at using the media to become famous, becoming the detective with the highest rate of reporting in the police station. Bud White is a true selfless police detective, but because of his upright and impulsive personality, he is often used by others.
The three police officers usually do not communicate with each other, but their fate is entangled because of a suspected collective murder in a restaurant. When they jointly launched an investigation, they were quickly involved in a web of pornography, drugs, murder, betrayal, corruption, and conspiracy. During this period, the three jointly discovered a secret: their director Dudley was related to the underworld. In the process of solving the case, both Edmund and Bird fell in love with the prostitute Lin who was implicated in the underworld. In this way, between love and law, justice and evil, several men launched a complicated struggle.
Dudley realized that his situation was getting more and more dangerous, so he began to implement a rigorous extermination plan. Faced with the killing of important witnesses one by one, Edmund thought of a reliable man—Hollywood West Sheriff, and asked him for help. At the Victory Hotel, Edmund, Bud finally exchanged fire with Dudley. After several rounds, Edmund was shot in his right arm and fell to the ground, and Bud was also shot. At this critical moment, Bud threw the dagger hard at Dudley.