一个本地人,姓名不详,他只是个从痛苦折磨中走出来的神秘男子,只能称之为无名氏。无名氏陷入了布鲁克林的一个地下犯罪组织,做最底层的毒品贩子。在那,无名氏接触到一位外地的雇主,给无名氏提供一项报酬丰厚的任务,他要求无名氏救出其吸毒成瘾的女儿。无名氏意识到,这不仅是为了报酬,也是对自身的救赎。The Local follows Noname, an enigmatic man running from a tortured past. He is trapped in a violent Brooklyn underworld as the lowly drug runner for a gang of crazed veterans. There, Noname is approached by a wealthy out-of-towner who offers him a large sum of money to"rescue" the man's heroin-addicted daughter from his employer's drug lair. Noname soon realizes that saving the girl is more than a payday. It will grant him a way out of his purgatory after a lifetime of wrongdoing, and open a path toward personal redemption.