When an anonymous source lands Alison in legal hot water over an article she published on police corruption only to disappear soon after, Alison too eagerly turns elsewhere for a sensational story. Eccentric, reclusive Michael Fisher offers to blow the lid off the decades-old death of a school gym teacher. Police corruption, prostitution and anti-Semitism all come into play as Alison tries to make a story out of Fisher's cryptic claims?all the while attempting to reconcile with her police officer ex-boyfriend and get into the good graces of her patronizing editor.