与恋人分手后伤心的诗织，每晚都梦见被神秘男子拥抱。陶醉于淫梦的她，渐渐变得妖艳起来。但是某天，梦中的男人变成了可怕的样子出现在现实世界中……

上海某大学女生江玲玉（白杨 饰）寄居在姨母家。抗战爆发后，她不顾家人反对阻止，毅然参加抗日救亡演剧队，到抗战前沿作鼓动宣传。与她同在一起的音乐家高礼彬（陶金 饰）是个热血青年，两人逐渐相爱。演剧队随着战事的发展，辗转来到陪都重庆，表兄周家荣（高正 饰）此时在渝做投机生意并纠缠江玲玉，遭江拒。抗战胜利后，变成“接收大员”的周家荣大发国难财，而结婚后的江玲玉和高礼彬却一贫如洗、捉襟见肘，幸得旧友夏光原（石羽 饰）相助，租了个亭子间栖身。长期的颠沛流离加上营养不良，当教员的礼彬患了肺病，担心国家前途命运的玲玉，不顾身怀有孕，奋笔疾书，揭发“劫收”大员们肮脏的嘴脸，终因体力不支，昏倒街头......

Ono’s work related destruction to interpersonal, often intimate, human relations. This element was particularly thought-provoking in ‹Cut Piece›, one of many actions she did as DIAS [Destruction in Art Symposium]. Ono had first done the performance in 1964, in Japan, and again at Carnegie Hall, in New York, in 1965. Ono sat motionless on the stage after inviting the audience to come up and cut away her clothing, covering her breasts at the moemnt of unbosoming. ‹Cut Piece› entailed a disrobing, a denouement of the reciprocity between exhibitionism and scopic desires, between victim and assailant, between sadist and masochist: and, as a heterosexual herselft, Ono unveiled the gendered relationship of male and female subjects as objects for each other.(source: Kristine Stiles,«Uncorrupted Joy: International Art Actions,» in: Out of Actions: between performance and the object, 1949–1979, Paul Schimmel (ed.), MoCA Los Angeles, New York/London, 1998, p. 278.)

1968年，为攫取北九州关门海峡毒品走私生意，大友田组成员楠铁弥（山崎努 饰）及其流浪者好友黑田修次（菅原文太 饰）行刺敌对帮派共荣会首领正木严。刺杀成功后，黑田担下所有罪名，入狱七年；而大友田组则从此独霸关门海峡，风头无两。七年刑满，黑田找到铁弥，索要大友田组曾许下的五百万酬金。但沉迷毒品的铁弥在组内威望直降，酬金要求被组长大友田德次（西村晃 饰）拒绝。万般无奈之下，他和黑田劫持德次勒索酬金。次日，大友田组若头相原重彦（成田三樹夫 饰）与黑田会面，却提议要对方除掉意图脱离大友组的老叔赤松猛夫（室田日出男 饰）。出色完成任务的黑田得到大友田的赏识，并不计前嫌与其结拜为兄弟。但强大的大友田组随后便迎来了一场继任领导人的争夺风暴……