纽约港的码头上，以约翰尼为首的黑社会势力无情地压迫着码头工人们。曾经是拳击手的特里（马龙·白兰度 Marlon Brando 饰）来到码头为约翰尼工作。他的朋友乔伊因为向犯罪委员会揭发约翰尼等人的罪行，被其手下，也是特里的哥哥查理从楼顶上推下摔死。乔伊的妹妹伊迪（爱娃·玛丽·森特 Eva Marie Saint 饰）发誓要为哥哥复仇，与教区牧师巴里神父一起展开调查。知情人都不敢出面告发。特里也...
A young woman tries to find her origins after having been abandoned as an infant at a cemetery wrapped in a cloth with satanic symbols, but as she gets closer to answers a malevolent spirit is telling...