There are days when things don't go right, and Lt. Joe Novelli is having one of those days. A new female recruit calls his home causing problems with his wife, then right after he gets a case, he's shot at the police station. Being laid up is not solving the murder of a teenage girl found lying in a cornfield. With help from his friend Larry Morgan, Joe proceeds investigating the murder. It's a case like none he's ever had; a mother whose a drug addict, a boyfriend whose father is determined his son is not going to be involved with the victim, and a child born to the dead girl, whose whereabouts are unknown.