Freddy Frenger, fresh out of San Quentin, flies into Miami airport with a pocketful of stolen credit cards and disappears leaving behind the corpse of a Hare Krishna. Soon, homicide detective Hoke Moseley is pursuing the chameleonesque Frenger and his airhead hooker girlfriend through the smart hotels, Cyban ghettoes and seedy suburban malls of Miami in a deadly game of hide and seek.