Ford Fairlane defines himself as a "rock' n 'roll" detective who works in the music business, chasing around the rock clubs of Hollywood, picking up women and clients. Stunned when the king of shock-jocks, and also his only paying client Johnny Crunch, is electrocuted on the air, just after he hired Ford to find a missing teenage groupie name Zuzu Petals, the unlikely detective finds himself get caught in a case involving with a cruel corrupt record executive, a clueless cop and former disco star and a ruthless hit man.