When his hockey career comes to a sudden end, Sam returns to his hometown and tries to escape into an earlier, simpler time in his life.

The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.

Set in the early 1960’s in New York City’s Public Morals Division, where cops walk the line between morality and criminality as the temptations that come from dealing with all kinds of vice can get the better of them.