Jake Scully (Craig Wasson), an unemployed actor, is asked to house-sit a luxurious hillside apartment. The home offers Jake a telescopic peek into the bedroom of Gloria Revelle (Deborah Shelton), who performs nightly. When Jake discovers another man is also spying on Gloria, he begins an obsessive surveillance of her. Soon a grisly murder leads him into the world of adult film where he meets, Holly Body (Melanie Griffith), who is a key to the crime.