杰克(格雷格·亨利 Gregg Henry 饰)是一个名不见经传的小演员,最近,他的运气有些糟糕,不仅撞见女友另寻新欢的场面,还不得不搬离了原来的房子,流落在街头。一次偶然中,杰克遇见了名为弗兰克(Russ Marin 饰)的男子,巧合的是,弗兰克正在寻找一个可靠的朋友帮他看家。 就这样,杰克搬进了弗兰克的屋子里,在这里,他发现了弗兰克的邻居,一位性感妖娆的美女,每日都在窗前搔首弄姿。尽管觉得不妥,但杰克无法克制自己不去看她,就这样,杰克渐渐地迷失在了偷窥的快感中。某日,杰克偷窥到了一起凶杀案,无法报警又不甘心坐视不管的他决定靠自己的力量追查凶手的下落。Jake Scully comes home to find his girlfriend with another man and has to find a new place. In between his acting workshops and his job in a vampire B-movie, he scans the paper looking for anything. He happens to meet Sam Bouchard, a fellow actor who needs a house sitter. Both are pleased with the arrangement that will have Jake staying in the house and for a sweetener, Sam shows him his favorite neighbor, a well-built woman who strips with her window open each night. Jake becomes obsessed with meeting her and is able to help recover her purse from a thief, but shows his own phobia, he is incapacitated by claustrophobia when the thief runs through a tunnel. When Jake witnesses a murder, he finds out that the police love to pin crimes on peeping Toms. Jake discovers that here are just too many coincidences but must hunt them down himself without the police.