Twenty-four-year-old Alex Lawson, a former successful detective in a small Irish town, now ekes out a miserable existence. He hides either from the dealers to whom he owes money or from the English police. He is pushed into a whirlpool of events, from which there seems to be no way out, by the murder of his ex-girlfriend, for which he flies to America to investigate. Now he has only one thing left to do - find the killer or die.