18岁的邮差朱利斯是著名黑人女歌手瑟尼亚·哈维斯的忠实歌迷。但他偷录了瑟尼亚的演唱会歌曲。这盒磁带差点迫使瑟尼亚放弃自己的自尊。同时朱利斯也偶然得到一盒指正卖淫和毒品集团头目的磁带。朱利斯因此卷入了警察和黑社会黑白两道的追杀之中。A young opera-loving mailman, Jules, becomes inadvertently entangled in murder, when a young woman fleeing two mob hit men drops an incriminating cassette into his mailbag. Jules has just recently recorded opera star Cynthia Hawkins' latest concert, something of a coup as Hawkins refuses to make recordings of any kind. Soon Jules finds himself the target of the hit men, who want the voice recording, and also of another couple of ominous and mysterious agents.