Rebecca Patterson's parents die in a car accident, and she accidentally learns that she was their adopted daughter. Who are her real father and mother? To understand all this, Rebecca hires private detective Jake Thornton... The small American town of Edgewater, where Rebecca's mother supposedly lives, greets them very unfriendly. First, a girl discovers a snake in her bathroom, then the brakes of her car fail, and when they shoot at her, having previously tried to drown her... Oh, if not for the courageous detective Thornton, who, perhaps for the first time in his life, really wanted to know about someone -to take care, and if not for the beauty and charm of Rebecca Patterson herself!..