A fading film star discovers a stalker is hunting her. Turning to Packard Mann for help she suddenly disappears. Mann joins up with Tiger Fat Choy, a martial artist and combat trainer for the San Francisco Police department. They head for Los Angeles in search of the missing star. The duo faces danger among the palms as they encounter an old school Mafioso formerly connected to the missing star, filmdom's version of the American Sweetheart. They work their way through a network of dangerous encounters and the mobster discovers that tangling with Packard and Tiger is a tougher path to travel than the mobster realizes.