Escaping from her troubled family life in Canada, Margaret has fled to Tokyo, where a mind-numbing job leads her to train conformist stewardesses to speak perfect English. During her chaotic nightly alcohol- and drug-induced stupor, she becomes increasingly haunted by images of a Western girl who is missing in Tokyo. Along with her affair with a mysterious gangster and flashbacks of her painful childhood, Margaret could be headed for tragedy amid the bustling background of Japan's neon nightlife and anonymous love hotels.