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.