When Milan Jacovich flies to a Caribbean island to look into the murder of hotshot Cleveland lawyer Joel Kerner, he is stabbed in an alleyway and roughed up by a high-level international cop. Back in Cleveland, he begs his best friend, homicide lieutenant Marko Meglich, for a little unofficial help, which takes him through all young Kerner’s ex-girl friends, his angry father, a powerful union leader, and eventually a tragic and insupportable personal loss.