Tri puta Oscarom nagrađeni redatelj Oliver Stone vraća se na velika platna s trilerom koji se temelji na hit kriminalističkom romanu autora Dona Winslowa. Radnja filma vrti se oko Bena i Chona (tumače ih Johnson i Kitsch), koji su uspješni u poslu uzgajivača marihuane. Međutim, stvari se dodatno zakompliciraju kad im sa poslovnim prijedlogom stignu 'velike ribe' svijeta krijumčarenja, koji žele dio njihove zarade.

Police inspector Sciarra, struggling with an identity crisis, and Domenica, an orphan who would like to know about her mother, spend one day together along the streets of Naples. It's Sciarra's last day of work and he has to take Domenica to the morgue, to identify a man who might have raped her. To Domenica, Sciarra is a father she never had, to him she is the daughter he couldn't have.

This documentary profiles some of the 15,000 people across America who raise monkeys, not just as pets, but as surrogate children.