San Francisco, 1967. Tough guy Morry Twych, with his brother Dicky and friend Moosy, has some years previously invented "porno" to replace the old burlesque. They run a successful "theater" downtown. Graduate student Will Rymer has been drafted by the Chicano members of PUS-People Under Slumlords-to be their honky negotiator with the slumlord, a downtown lawyer named Berlitzer. The suave Byron Berlitzer, aka Sleekman, also owns the property where the Twych Brothers operate their theater, and wants a piece of the action. All five men are involved with, maybe even in love with, the gorgeous Li Van Bang, a twenty-year-old Vietnamese-American, who is a clean naive student at SF State by day and a sometime porno film actress by night. TIGHT begins with the men meeting and disliking and distrusting each other, but their self-chosen mission to rescue Li from the clutches of Wavy Hazy and his Hairy Pranksters forces them to work together and get to know each other, despite their differences."