Former Chicago Police Detective Sam Laska discovers a dead body and more when he takes a job as an insurance investigator. Fighting the urge to involve himself proves futile as new and old friends are swept up. His loyalty to them trumps restraint and he rushes in headfirst. A voluptuous vixen, a rustic thug, police detectives, a storefront preacher, and his own girlfriend figure in his search for the truth. After he discovers a secret that sends him reeling he begins to wonder who he can trust and in what he truly believes.