When a mysterious woman named Anna Reddick knocks on the door of an ambitious young lawyer with ten thousand dollars in cash and asks him to prove that her husband Newton, an antiquarian, has stolen her collection of rare legal documents and intends to sell them, he assumes the case will be straightforward and resolved quickly. And it is, as Newton Reddick is caught. However, when the real Anna Reddick appears and makes it clear that he has become a victim of a scheme due to his lack of research and has tarnished her husband's reputation, he begins to investigate on his own to salvage what might still be saved. But Newton Reddick has vanished without a trace. When Anna Reddick returns to inform him that her husband has been found dead and assigns him the task of uncovering the truth about his demise, events spiral out of control, entangling him in a gripping tale where truth and deception merge in a stylish homage to the noir genre, taking him on a dark ride through Brooklyn and New York.