Rey Cruz, a journeyman comic is found a block away from a veteran friend's home with gunshot wounds to the head. Darren Wallace, the veteran friend who is black, doubts the local police will be diligent in looking for a killer of a person of color. Especially given the sketchy area where Cruz was found and also, Cruz's well-known history of substance abuse.

Darren is a landlord who teaches self-defense out of his home as a side hustle and is not a trained investigator. Darren at first suspects a local meth dealer as the culprit. However, after inheiritng Cruz's notebook of material which also was his journal and recalling past conversations leads Darren to one Amos Detweiler. Cruz was having an affair with Breck, Detweiler's wife whenever he was in town.

As Darren descends into a rabbit-hole trying to ferret out the killer he brushes up against Detweiler, his wife, an ex-MI6 agent and an ex-Air Force supervisor of his. One Clayton Fisk who is now head of security for Detweiler. Fisk also heads a white nationalist group and fosters a grudge against Darren.