His attempts to recover his life soon lead him to trouble with the law, trouble that gets worse when he finds that an important federal agent may have jumped from that girl's balcony. He has no memories of how that agent fell to his death right outside her apartment, no memories of how to do her job, no memories of the family the girl was apparently quarreling with, no memories of her boyfriend who may have been using her apartment for illegal activities and no memories of the friends who might be his only hope in this new life.

As difficult as it may be for a ninety two year old man to take over the complicated life of a twenty six year old psychiatric nurse, he finds his only choice is to become that girl or spend the remainder of his life in an institution, either mental, correctional or both.

Of course the policeman investigating the demise of that federal agent doesn't believe anything of her tale, whichever way she tells it. Once he digs deeper he finds the case of that jumper is involved with his two AWOL officers, a homeless man that murdered a missing fisherman and the mad fur seal that was left on that fisherman's boat.