海蒂被一残暴的神经病患丹尼斯毁容，他专门在城市里的街道及河边猎取不知情的妓女，海蒂一心复仇，无奈计划一次又一次地失败。正当另一名女子凯莉被丹尼斯抓走之际，海蒂及凯莉的丈夫杰夫及时在一间废弃的仓库找到了他们，就在丹尼斯准备切割凯莉时，海蒂牺牲了自己．．．。

Privilege is an intelligently conceived, boldly anarchic, and wickedly insightful exposition on the culturally ingrained and socially divisive malaise of isms that artificially define and characterize empowerment in contemporary society: ageism, sexism, economic elitism, and racism. Yvonne Rainer conveys texture through the intercutting of archival footage, video, and film - as well as compositional layering through the film-within-a-film structure, elliptical (and self-referential) fusion of past and present, and the filmmaker's idiosyncratic penchant for superimposed typed text.