It’s a cold Sunday in San Francisco. Sharon McCone’s alone on a routine surveillance job following a man named Frank Wilkonson through the city’s lush horticultural hot spots to the sere foothills of the Diablos. But when she returns to find her kindly old client in a pool of blood nothing she’s learned explains it. The search of answers takes her from Wilkonson’s sullen brood on Burning Oak Ranch to the eccentric havoc of a household in the Haight to Golden Gate Park and the desperate digs of the homeless. Unraveling the threads that link a homeless man a pair of prominent activists a wayward rancher and a mysterious missing beauty Sharon is plunged into the depths of domestic mayhem … entering a realm where dreams shatter and marriage leads to bloody murder.