The City of Carlsbad, California is rattled to its core when the death of a local, young woman hits the airwaves. Detective Leo Shanks, a self-loathing, alcoholic father takes the case and starts them on the path of finding a psychotic killer with his unique investigative skills. But what starts out as one case turns into a pandemic of increasing violent murders within the local communities. Shanks and the local team are at their wit's end trying to stop the massacre of their young women. Just when he thinks there is a break in the case, he finds there is much more to the tragedies. With the help of Cato, an outspoken elderly stranger, he learns that the killer he is searching for is a much more powerful foe than he realizes. He straps up his boots to take on the quest to save his family and his world from the impending disaster!