David 'Beller' is working at a restaurant with weightlifter Carl Molino, who is talked into entering a bodybuilding contest by small time hustler Mandy.

While living in the Chinatown part of San Francisco, a baffled David 'Barrett' finds himself the unwilling recipient of a mail order bride seeking something hidden in his apartment, dragging him and his landlady into a standoff between the Chinese Mafia and a gruff beat cop.