A young couple's romantic bliss is shattered in this dark drama from Martin Scorsese. When a Catholic reformed street thug (Harvey Keitel) finds out that his girlfriend (Zina Bethune) was raped years earlier, he's unable to cope with the revelation. Despite his deep feelings for the girl, he's chained to a repressive moral code and a social milieu that assigns women to one of two categories: virgin or whore.