Jules (Frederic Andrei) is a Parisian mail courier in possession of two highly sought-after tapes: the first contains a rare recording of American opera singer Cynthia Hawkins (Wilhelmenia Fernandez), with whom he has fallen in love; the second is a tape slipped into his bag by a young woman just before she is murdered. The unwitting Jules thus finds himself being pursued by Taiwanese bootleggers & a thuggish gang of drug-dealers, who will do anything to get their hands on the cassettes. The directorial debut of Jean-Jacques Beineix (' Betty Blue', ' The Moon in the Gutter').