一個年輕女子被一個背木邪教綁架和她的報復。

　　環衛公司垃圾車駕駛員尼卡德（Matti Pellonp?? 飾）的老同事計劃籌資組建自己的環衛公司，邀請尼卡德技術入股，但老同事不久急病突發身亡，尼卡德的生活重回一潭死水狀態。尼卡德心有不甘借酒滋事，在被拘留的時候結識日后的同事米卡拉。米卡拉偶而會不識趣的妨礙尼卡德暗地追求超市售貨員伊羅娜（Kati Outinen 飾），但他仍是尼卡德最可依賴的朋友。伊羅娜為報復超市經理偷走了錢盒，尼卡德幫助她找到服裝店的新工作，服裝店經理夾到尼卡德與伊羅娜的關系中間，但尼卡德最終奪回了自己的愛人。　　本片獲1987年芬蘭電影尤西獎最佳影片獎。是導演郭立斯馬基（Aki Kaurism?ki）無產階級三部曲的第一部。

　　The boisterous, arrogant professor Challenger, a reputed biologist and anthropologist, dares the London Zoological Society to mount an expedition to verify his spectacular claim, without physical proof, that his previous expedition to the Amazonian basin found live dinosaurs. Apart from him and his 'socialite' counterpart, professor Summerlee, it consists of experienced discoverer Lord Roxbury, the young reporter Ed Malone -who got publicly struck down with Challenger's umbrella at his arrival- and Jennifer Holmes, Malone's news agency's boss's daughter, essentially as conditions for putting up the money. In Brazil they are joined by Jennifer's brother David and local 'guide' Manuel Gomez. They soon discover the dinosaurs are real and dangerous, like giant spiders, but loose their helicopter and thus are desperate for a way down from the isolated plateau. They learn Roxbury knew about the fate of Burton White, an explorer whose diary they find, thus presume to be dead, in search of diamonds, and confirmation of the local tribe being the lethal guardians of the plateau's secrets, but also get surprising help...

　　一名男子打電話給孟買警方并告訴他們，他已經把5個不同的炸彈安置在城市之內，并已經設定在同一時間爆炸-他希望以此交換4名恐怖分子。他是否能換回他們？背后的黑手是誰？動機又是什么呢？是否不是表面上看起來那么簡單呢？