Chris McCormick (Margaux Hemingway), a high fashion and cosmetics model is brutally raped by her younger sister’s music teacher, Gordon Stuart (Sarandon). After pleading not guilty to the crime and being found innocent by a jury, Stuart finds a new victim in Chris’s younger sister and his own student, Kathy (Mariel Hemingway). Now even more enraged by the recent turn of events, Chris takes matters into her own hands as she seeks revenge for the crimes committed against both herself and her sister.

　　1984年是一个充满问题与帮派、毒品、暴力的年代，彼得是领导一个团伙的恶棍，恐吓学校。所以，一个新的音乐老师提议，在内城学校的学生，必须通过金属探测器才能进学校。学校与社会流氓的争斗到底如何了结呢？学校与社会内外的恶棍做出了出人意料的行动。

Richard Fleischer repeatedly turned down Dino De Laurentiis' overtures to direct the film. He ultimately relented when he realized that the best way to make the film was to shoot it straight and tell the story as truthfully as he could.