When veteran criminal Junior Frenger (Alec Baldwin) decides to move to Miami to make a fresh start he is drawn into the good life and soon returns to his wicked old ways.

Mysterious, hilarious and nefarious, Frenger is an enigma of a man prone to violent armed robbery, his is a veritable crime wave in the making. But when his ex-prostitute wife Susie suspects Frenger is up to no good and with obsessed cop Hoke Moseley (Fred Ward) on the trail, it is not long before things begin to heat up in Miami.