Filme en torno a los años dorados del club nocturno neoyorquino CBGB.
Banda sonora con las canciones del filme. Entre ellas, de Talking Heads (Life During Wartime), MC5 (Kick Out the James), New York Dolls (Chatterbox), Television (Careful), Richard Hell & the Voidoids (Blank Generation), Flamin' Groovies (Slow Death), Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers (All By Myself) o The Dictators (California Sun).