The Pulitzer family is a cruel and violent family. The standard of their honor is to trample on the law and break the bones of their opponents. Charlie Paterna ( Jack Nicholson ) is a killer in this family, but he doesn't agree with such honor standards, at least in his mind he thinks so.
At the wedding of a family member, he rejected Menos Pulitzer ( Anjelica Huston ), who had long admired him, because he met the beautiful Irene Walker ( Kathleen Turner ). Irene is a tax consultant in public. In fact, she is also a professional killer like Charlie. Because of this, she fell in love with Charlie. But when Irene betrayed the Pulitzer family, Charlie found that he was in a dilemma, whether to kill her or marry her?
