Jackie Brown is a stewardess, but unfortunately she doesn't earn enough money. That's why she works for the arms dealer Ordell Robbie. He has invested his fortune in Mexico and has Jackie Brown smuggle cash into the USA. When Jackie is checked one day, she is busted with 50,000 dollars and a few grams of cocaine in her hand luggage. Federal agent Ray Nicolet proposes a deal to Jackie: she is to deliver her employer Ordell Robbie to the knife and is assured of impunity in return ...