Appointed to the post of the nation's drug czar, tough Ohio judge Robert Wakefield is about to get an education in America's addiction problems when his own daughter becomes a junkie and disappears on the streets. In the meantime, a pair of narcotics cops struggle to keep a key witness alive long enough to testify, and a naïve San Diego wife learns the hard way about the secret drug trade operation of her dealer husband. Starring Michael Douglas and Benecio Del Toro.