Trace is out to find a murderer, not an unusual task for a private eye. There's only one problem: he was the victim. Now he wanders the streets searching for his killer, hampered by the additional task of helping a young Hispanic girl out of the life of drugs and prostitution into which she has fallen. This he tends to, grudgingly, but his true desire is to reconnect with his family and be the husband and father in death that he wasn't in life. As his search continues, he finds the safe world of his family and the violent world of the streets begin to slide closer together, and there's nothing he can do to stop it.