The film depicts a realistic and graphic portrayal of the heroin addiction that afflicted many young drifters in the eighties.

[4] Cesare, Enzo and Ciopper are a group of heroin addicts whose main occupation is to find money for their daily fix.

Here they meet a group of friends, including Donna, a transvestite, her boyfriend Debora, and Massimo, a fellow heroin-addict who has just been released from prison.

The next day the group pay a visit to Patrizia, a local artist who is willing to share her stash, and they all do drugs in her studio.

Cesare rushes her to the hospital, and consumed by guilt and anxiety, returns to the beach and shoots the rest of their drugs before frantically running back to the emergency room where a doctor is trying to save Michela.