The story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's attempt to cross the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974.
A former agent of the CIA and his estranged daughter go on the run after his employers target them for assassination.
In his apartment, a meticulous novelist is trying to write a new story and is every time disrupted by the bass music of the girl living next floor, a beautiful young woman who works as a DJ.
The murder of the ex-wife of Doctor Sam Charney (Rutger Hauer) leads Detective Della Wilder (Pam Grier) to uncover a series of women's murders somehow linked to a big pharmaceutical company.