John Weather, after serving in the army, returns to his childhood town—the one he fled ten years ago. His father is the mayor of this town. Almost as soon as he arrives, the hero learns that his father was killed two years earlier and the killer remains unknown. John quickly realizes that the police’s helplessness in solving the crime is not accidental. He begins his own investigation to expose the current “owners of the city” and find his father’s murderer. And along the way, he discovers many horrifying facts about his family—and about his hometown, which in his childhood memories had remained beautiful until now.