A young married couple, Henrietta (Barbra Streisand) and Pete Robbins (Michael Sarrazin), are far from wealthy on Pete's cabdriver salary in Brooklyn, N.Y. When Pete needs $3,000 to follow through on a stock market tip, Henrietta decides to secretly go to a loan shark for the money, since the bank won't help them. As it turns out, the tip is a dud, and Henrietta is left in serious debt to some dangerous people. Now, she needs to scramble to pay back what she owes before she gets whacked.