In Los Angeles, more than one Black girl is murdered before the cops take the case seriously. And when an equally brutal death befalls a white college student, they remember Izzy Rawlinze. As he puts it himself: “I cost a whole precinct of detectives when it came to digging up information in the ghetto.” But Izzy refuses to cooperate. He’s married, raising a child—and his detective career is over. However, the police brass plays by its own rules: if Rawlinze doesn’t help, then his best friend will be sent to prison. Izzy returns, plunging into the dangerous world of the night streets of the Watts district and the dark, perverted back alleys of the killer’s mind…