Hours after agreeing to marry How Kum Menon, Vanita Sundram is murdered while asleep in her fianc?'s arms. More killings follow, and the reluctant How Kum is soon embroiled in the police investigation, only to find himself dealing with an unlikely brigade of self-proclaimed `experts': his drunken Uncle Oscar with his underworld links, an American psycho-sexual profiler and his matronly psychic sidekick, and a Hindu holy-man, who plans to dissuade Vanita's soul from uniting with the Universal Spirit just long enough to reveal the identity of the murderer... A corrosive picture of contemporary Singapore, a hitherto placid economic miracle zone whose image conceals an older network of corruption and intrigue.